Vaccine information for Healthcare Professionals

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If you're a GP, a Practice Nurse or part of a HSE Immunisation Team click below for information on

• Primary Childhood Immunisation programme
• 4 in 1 and MMR School Programme
• COVID-19 Vaccine
• Flu vaccine
• Hepatitis B vaccine
• HPV School Programme
• HPV vaccine for people living with HIV and MSM
• Meningococcal B Disease
• Meningococcal ACWY School Programme
• Pertussis
• Polio
• Pneumococcal Disease
• Rotavirus
• Rubella
• “Swine Flu” Pandemic Vaccine
• Tdap School Programme
• Tetanus
• Travel Vaccines
• Vaccine Ingredients 
• FAQs
• Immunisation Catchup Schedule 
• Immunisation Refusal Form
• Immunisation Guidelines
• School Programme
• Vaccine ordering and storage
• Correspondence

Education

• E-Learning
• Conferences

Guidance

• Infection Prevention & Control precautions and PPE requirements when administering vaccines in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (all intramuscular vaccines and intranasal influenza vaccine)
• Immunisation Catchup Schedule (May 2021)
• Mixing of Vaccines (Updated July 2018)
• The National Immunisation Advisory Committee Immunisation Guidelines for Ireland
• The National Immunisation Advisory Committee recommends that the National Immunisation Programmes continue as usual and have issued the following post immunisation advice.
• The National Immunisation Advisory Committee have issued a statement on duration of post vaccination observation
• Supporting Information for Staff - Schools Immunisation Programme 2021/2022 academic year 
• Guidelines for vaccinations in General Practice
• Previous vaccine schedules
• FAQ's for Health Professionals

Research

Evaluation of Information Materials, Training and Performance of the HSE National Cold Chain Service during the Implementation of the New Primary Childhood Immunisation (PCI) Schedule. Dr Breda Cosgrove, Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine (November 2017)

An audit of HPV information materials from 7 countries. Dr Breda Cosgrove, Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine (June 2017)

The Uptake of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine In Irish Schools: The Impact Of Disadvantage Dr Chantal Migone, Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine (2015)

Rapid response to HPV vaccination crisis in Ireland Dr Brenda Corcoran, Consultant in Public Health Medicine (May 2018) 

Uptake Statistics

• National Immunisation Uptake Statistics are available on www.hpsc.ie
• Uptake statistics for the UK and Northern Ireland are avaialble on the UK Health Protection Agency website
• International figures are available on www.who.it

This page was updated on 3 June 2022