• What is your job title and role?

• Rate yourself on your experience:

1= Still fairly new to this., Perhaps less than a year and maybe this is your first ever immunisation update. Some basic reminders would be very useful to you.

2 = Getting the hang of things. Done it a while. Eager to dive deeper now.

3 = Part of the furniture. Many years in and lots of experience. Eager to support junior colleagues, Perhaps you are in a management or supervisory role and want to improve standards across the practice.

Let's get to know each other.

What are the aims of this session?

• Review of competency, national policy, and professional and legal boundaries.

• To look at the bigger picture and refresh our enthusiasm for such an important area of health care and health promotion.

• What are we doing well at? Sharing tips for improving practice and making things easier.

• Discuss topical issues, such as low uptake, vaccine hesitancy, administration technique, individual vaccine updates. Also, a look to future changes ahead…

During the course, please take the chance to:

• Raise questions (& answer questions)

• Highlight and discuss important topics, like things going on in practice that concern you

• Spot gaps in knowledge and make any necessary study plans for afterwards

• Liaise with peers. Share good practice and give your peers some valuable insights

• Reflect on the material thoughtfully, with intentions to improve and grow in your practice

• Don't forget to reflect on all the positive things you have been doing too!

Snacks and brews are optional .... but highly recommended alongside the content.

Why is it important to be here?

To maintain your competency

To ensure you are following UK policy

To keep up with changes

To be better able to deal with challenges like uptake and hesitancy

Did you know?

On average, uptake has dropped across ALL the routine UK immunisations in recent years.

Why Immunise?

“The two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s health are clean water and vaccines.”

“The two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s health are clean water and vaccines.”

Time and again, the international community has endorsed the value of vaccines and immunisation to prevent and control a large number of infections, and increasingly, cancers and other chronic disease.

WHO (2019)

And vaccines have an exciting future ahead ....

Everyone who vaccinates should adhere to the competencies in the National Minimum Standards

Every year the Core Curriculum recommends annual (and CONTINUOUS) updates.

A NEW revised document – arrived in June 2025

NOTE FOR THE TO DO LIST: Arrange to review the latest competencies in there.

Do you understand the boundaries and requirements of your role?

Is there anything you want to ask around:

• Who can do what?

• What legal and professional requirements you need to fulfill as an immuniser?

Does your job role require any more competency signs offs in relation to your immunisation practice?

Working under PGD? Or authorising them?

Working in a travel health role??

How effective is vaccination?

Infographics Source: https://www.immunology.org/public-information/vaccine-resources

But despite this, there is still lots of hesitancy, concerns and misinformation around...

As healthcare workers we MUST remain positive in the face of lots of negativity.

What kind of things have you heard?

Uptake is not always about hesitancy.

Sometimes people simply do not know they are at risk!

For example:

In the May 2022 edition of Vaccine Update they reported that; “56% of older adults eligible for routine vaccines in the most deprived areas didn’t know they needed the vaccination against pneumococcal disease and 69% didn’t know about shingles. 46% had never heard of the former, while 55% hadn’t heard of the latter”

What can we do to improve things here? Tip: Visit https://alyssclassroom.co.uk/hesitancy for some inspiration and resources after the course.

How do YOU provide CORRECT & RELIABLE information to your patients?

• Which digital resources can you provide them with?

• Which physical documents can you give to them?

• How do you ensure that consent is INFORMED?

• How do you ensure you are limiting inequalities in vaccination? (cultural/digital/generational)?

• How do you ensure you are addressing concerns and hesitancy well?

  TIP: Why not pick a resource below to get some inspiration and ideas from?

Jitsuvax (Challenging Misinformation)

Vaccine Knowledge Project (Patient Informaion)

Find Public Health Resources (physical resources - FREE!)

Good Things Guide (digital inequality)