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Pre work information.  

All attendees booked onto the 2-day immunisation course must:

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Pre work information.  

All attendees booked onto the 2-day immunisation course must:

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Access to the current Complete Routine Immunisation Schedule

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Access to the Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status algorithm (you may find it beneficial to bring a hard copy to the session)

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Access to The Green Book Immunisation against infectious disease - GOV.UK (please note this is a very large document - do not print a copy of this, it is for digital access)

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The Green Book has the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures, for vaccine preventable infectious diseases in the UK.

The Green Book

Information for public health professionals on immunisation.

Part 1: principles, practices and procedures

Information for public health professionals on immunisation.

Part 2: the diseases, vaccinations and vaccines

Information for public health professionals on immunisation.

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The Green Book has the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures, for vaccine preventable infectious diseases in the UK.

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Access to the Vaccinator competency assessment tool work book

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All attendees are required to complete some pre-session work. Please access elearning for healthcare (Home - elearning for healthcare), go the Immunisation (IMM) session and complete the Immunology and types of vaccine section, including the assessment for this section

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providing elearning to educate and train the health and social care workforce

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To accompany this elearning, please also access and read the following documents which go into further detail about the types of vaccines: https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/understanding_six_types_of_vaccine_technologies (please note we are not endorsed by pfizer)

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Understanding Six Types of Vaccine Technologies | Pfizer

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Ever since the first vaccine was developed in 1796 to treat smallpox,1 several different methods have been created to develop successful vaccines. Today, those methods, known as vaccine technologies, are more advanced and use the latest technology to help protect the world from preventable diseases.2

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Most of the vaccines in the UK schedule are subunit vaccines which do not contain any whole bacteria or viruses at all. Instead, these vaccines typically contain one or more specific antigens (or “flags”) from the surface of the pathogen. The advantage of subunit vaccines over whole pathogen vaccines is that the immune response can focus on recognising a small number of antigen targets (“flags”).