Vaccination Services Update

HSE PharmaVax

HSE PharmaVax
To ensure patient records are maintained as accurate and up to date on the national vaccination records system, it is important that the immunocompromised status of each patient is recorded correctly on each vaccine administration, as the status of many patients will change over time. To that end HSE PharmaVax is currently being updated for the autumn winter vaccination campaign so that community pharmacists will be able to:

  • View the immunocompromised status of a patient through the ‘vaccination history search’ function; and
  • Update the current immunocompromised status of the patient at time of vaccination.

To update the current immunocompromised status of the patient at time of vaccination HSE PharmaVax will now have an additional mandatory field entitled ‘Immunocompromised (IC) Assessment’ which must be reviewed to either confirm or update the immunocompromised status of the patient. This ‘Immunocompromised (IC) Assessment’ field is currently available in the ‘Vaccination Search History’ section of Pharmavax and will be added to the ‘Add Vaccination’ section in the coming days. Detailed guidance on how to interact with this detail on Pharmavax will be published over the coming days.

 

Other Pharmavax updates that are scheduled in the coming days include:

 

  • Recording of new at-risk grouping for COVID-19 vaccine administrations; and
  • Enabling the vaccination history search which displays administration records for Comirnaty® Omicron XBB.1.5 30mcg between HSE Pharmavax and COVAX systems.

We will notify you once relevant updates have been implemented and, where relevant, when supporting guidance has been issued.

 

LAIV in Schools
The HSE ‘Toolkit to Support the Administration of Flu Vaccination to Children in Primary Schools or Community Settings by Primary Care’ for the 2023/24 season has been published and is available here.
The PSI ‘Guidance to support pharmacies in providing safe vaccination services offsite from the pharmacy premises’ is currently being updated and we anticipate it being available shortly.

 

NIO Webinar LAIV
The National Immunisation Office (NIO) will host their final webinar in support of the HSE Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme 2023/24.

Details of their final webinar are as follows:

• Wednesday 27 September 12.00pm-1.00pm – Topic: Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) Information Session.

To register for this event and/or to find out further information please click here.

Should you not be in a position to attend a recording of this webinar and all the webinars that the NIO have hosted are available to view on the HSE Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme 2023/24 webpage.

 

Shingles Vaccination Records
Pharmacists can record the administration of a shingles vaccine for a patient with a Personal Public Services Number (PPSN) in the “Pharmacy Application Suite”. The “vaccination services” facility is located under “claiming” in the suite and enables a pharmacist to comply with their legal obligation to notify the HSE of a shingles vaccination. There is no reimbursement for this service. In the event that a patient does not have a PPSN, then the pharmacist can satisfy their legal obligations of notifying the HSE via PCRS.VaccineRecord@hse.ie.