Participating community pharmacies are ideally placed to ensure spread and reach of Seasonal Flu vaccinations. The SLA for the service can be found below. All eligible patients in Scotland can be vaccinated in community pharmacy, however there are also some cohorts of patients who will be specifically directed to community pharmacy for vaccination.
Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Service SLA 2023/2024.
The aim of this service is to improve overall uptake of vaccination across Ayrshire and Arran by offering vaccinations from local community pharmacies.
Contractor payment for this service is automatic (three months in arrears) following vaccination details being recorded on the TURAS vaccine management too l(VMT)
Community Pharmacy NHS Flu service 2023 / 2024 Training resources
- Influenza NPGD 2023/2024 310
- Influenza 2023/2024 NPGD 310 sign up form
- Influenza 2023/2024 FAQs
- Influenza 2023/2024 Ordering Details
- Seasonal Flu TURAS modules: NES Flu eLearning
- Anaphylaxis training – TURAS: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/36058
- Basic life support (copy and paste the link to a browser) https://youtu.be/DYQKBGKXE2w
Access the training video by copying and pasting this link into a browser that allows access to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kfq6uKxfk
- Vaccine management tool (VMT) demonstration: https://vimeo.com/483051390