Public Health England recommends those delivering vaccinations update their skills yearly.

Our Vaccination Training 1-day refresher course follows recommendations from The National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for Registered Healthcare Practitioners.

You will refresh your knowledge and practical skills needed to ensure safe vaccination delivery, recognise and manage anaphylaxis shock and perform basic life support.

• Update knowledge on national vaccine policies, schedules, legislation + guidance
• Recap your responsibilities as a vaccination provider
• Demonstrate the steps required prior to, during and post vaccination administration
• Demonstrate how to administer vaccinations safely
• Describe how to store and supply vaccinations
• Refresh knowledge on Anaphylaxis awareness, treatment + Basic Life Support
• Describe the supervisory role and how to successfully delegate
• Demonstrate how to recognise and manage anaphylaxis
• Demonstrate how to safely and effectively perform Basic Life Support
• Describe effective communication methods with patients, parents and carers and other relevant people about immunisation
• Demonstrate how to reconstitute and administer vaccines correctly

Course Introduction: 10:30 - 10:45 (15 minutes)

Session 1: 10:45 - 13:00 (135 minutes)

• Update knowledge on national vaccine policies, schedules, legislation + guidance
• Recap your responsibilities as a vaccination provider
• Demonstrate the steps required prior to, during and post vaccination administration
• Demonstrate how to administer vaccinations safely
• Describe how to store and supply vaccinations
• Refresh knowledge on Anaphylaxis awareness, treatment + Basic Life Support
• Describe the supervisory role and how to successfully delegate

Session 2: 13:30 - 14:45 (75 minutes)

• Demonstrate how to recognise and manage anaphylaxis
• Demonstrate how to safely and effectively perform basic life support

Session 3: 14:45 - 16:45 (120 minutes)

• Describe effective communication methods with patients, parents and carers and other relevant people about immunisation
• Demonstrate how to reconstitute and administer vaccines correctly
• Delegate assessments - Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Injections

Course summary: 16:45 - 17:00 (15 minutes)

Please note - morning and afternoon refreshment breaks will be given at a natural stopping point within a given session.

• Q + A session for commonly encountered problems in practice
• All vaccination techniques (sub-cutaneous (SC) and Intra-Muscular (IM)) will be observed by a specialist trainer