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richiecroker authored Sep 18, 2023
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{
"name": "NHS England Low Priority Treatment - travel vaccines",
"title": [
"Travel vaccines cost per 1000 patients"
],
"description": [
"Cost of travel vaccines per 1000 patients"
],
"name": "Items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care - travel vaccines",
"title": "Travel vaccines cost per 1000 patients",
"description": "Cost of travel vaccines per 1000 patients",
"numerator_short": "Travel vaccines cost (£)",
"denominator_short": "1000 patients",
"why_it_matters": [
"There are seven vaccines - Hepatitis B, Japanese Encephalitis, Meningitis ACWY, Yellow Fever, Tick-borne encephalitis, ",
"Rabies and Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) - which are not supposed to be prescribed by practices on the NHS when exclusively ",
"given for travel purposes. ",
"Sometimes GP practices supply them in error for travel"
"<p><a href='https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/items-which-should-not-routinely-be-prescribed-in-primary-care-policy-guidance/#travel-vaccines-vaccines-administered-exclusively-for-the-purposes-of-travel-2017' ",
"target='_blank'>",
"NHS England guidance states</a>:</p>",
"<i><p>The following vaccinations should not be prescribed on the NHS exclusively for the purposes of travel:</p>",
"<ul>",
"<li>hepatitis B</li>",
"<li>Japanese encephalitis</li>",
"<li>meningitis ACWY</li>",
"<li>yellow fever</li>",
"<li>tick-borne encephalitis</li>",
"<li>rabies</li>",
"<li>BCG.</li>",
"</ul>",
"<p>These vaccines should continue to be recommended for travel but the individual traveller will need to bear the cost of the vaccination.</p>",
"<p>For all other indications, as outlined in Immunisation Against Infectious Disease &ndash; the Green Book &ndash; the vaccine remains free on the NHS.</p></i>",
"<p>NHS England recommend that GPs:",
"<ul>",
"<li>Do not initiate.</li>",
"<li>Prescribe only for an indication named in this guidance.</li>",
"</ul>"
],
"tags": [
"cost",
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"low_is_good": true,
"numerator_type": "bnf_cost",
"numerator_bnf_codes_filter": [
"0802040X0 # Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (B.C.G.)",
"1404000AA # Tick-Borne Encephalitis Vaccine",
"1404000AB # Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine",
"1404000G0 # Hepatitis B",
"1404000N0 # Rabies",
"1404000AS # Japanese encephalitis vaccine (Imported)",
"1404000AR # Japanese encephalitis vaccine (Inactivated,adsorbed)",
"1404000X0 # Meningococcal A + C + W135 + Y Vaccine",
"1404000U0 # Yellow Fever",
"1404000X0 # Meningococcal A + C + W135 + Y Vaccine"
"1404000AA # Tick-Borne Encephalitis Vaccine",
"1404000N0 # Rabies",
"0802040X0 # Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (B.C.G.)"
],
"denominator_type": "list_size"
"denominator_type": "list_size",
"authored_by": "[email protected]",
"checked_by": "[email protected]",
"date_reviewed": "2023-08-15",
"next_review": "2025-08-15",
"measure_complexity": "low",
"measure_type": "bnf_code",
"radar_exclude": false
}

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