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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 – the Green Book – 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 | ||
} |