Community Pharmacy NHS Travel Vaccination
NHS Fife Community Pharmacy Travel Vaccination Service
NHS Fife welcome the involvement of community pharmacy in the delivery of Travel vaccination on behalf of NHS Fife.
The service specification fully explains how Community Pharmacy travel vaccination works
You can watch the NHS Fife Community Pharmacy Travel Vaccination Service webinar here -
Training
All pharmacists delivering travel vaccination must undertake immunisation training including anaphylaxis management, and this must be delivered by a recognised immunisation training organisation. Please also visit the NES Vaccination TURAS page here
Patient Group Directions
There are five Patient Group Directions available to provide the required NHS vaccinations, please read and sign up to these, returning the agreement form to fife.pgd@nhs.scot
PGD 332 Travel Hepatitis A + Typhoid
Patient Clinical Record - Appendix D
Recording
Initially recording of vaccination will be paper based, the "standard offline form" on TURAS should be used and can be found here and should be submitted to NHS Fife admin once completed. Recording of vaccination will eventually be through the Vaccine Management Tool (VMT). You will need access to this system to record vaccinations, it is held on the TURAS platform. To gain access please send your name, email address you use to access TURAS and your usual pharmacy to fife.fifepharmacycommpharm@nhs.scot using the title "VMT Access Request" and we will arranged to have the VMT option added. If you do not have a TURAS account, please send your name, nhs scot email address and usual pharmacy details so one can be created for you.
If you are new to Turas you will receive an onboarding email which will guide you to log in and change your password. If you already have an existing Turas account you won't receive an onboarding email and will just be able to see that you have access through the following link:
ACTIONS REQUIRED
1. Please note that pharmacists will require to have undertaken and be up to date with immunisation training (including previous face to face) in order to participate in this service to provide immunisation under the NHS Fife PGDs.
2. Please read and sign up to the NHS Fife travel PGDs, sign the professional agreement form and return to fife.pgd@nhs.scot (no need to complete authorising clinician/manager section)
3. Register for the Vaccine Management Tool by sending your full name and TURAS/NHS email address to fife.fifepharmacycommpharm@nhs.scot using the email title "VMT Access Request"
The claim form can be found here - Travel Health Service Claim Form
Any enquiries regarding the service can be emailed to fife.fifepharmacycommpharm@nhs.scot