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 - 11:30 (45 minutes)

• Changes to legislation relevant to vaccination
• Current issues in vaccination
• Record keeping
• Accountability, supervision and delegation

Session 2: 11:30 - 12:15 (45 minutes)

• Changes to National Immunisation Schedule
• Recent epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases

Session 3: 12:15 - 13:00 (45 minutes)

• Review of vaccine types and compositions
• Changes in contraindications and adverse events

Lunch break: 13:00 - 13:30 (30 minutes)

Session 4: 13:30 - 15:30 (120 minutes)

• Review of current practice and identification of areas for improvement
• Delegate assessments - Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Injections

Session 5: 15:30 - 16:45 (75 minutes)

• Anaphylaxis recognition and management
• Basic life support demonstration and practical assessment

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
• Copy of the 'Immunisation against infectious diseases - the green book' provided to each delegate