Starting to plan your flu campaign?

It’s that time of year again when you’ll be starting to plan your flu campaign. Flu vaccination is more important than ever this year to keep your staff and patients safe through what is likely to be another difficult winter. As social distancing measures are relaxed, flu may make a resurgence especially as immunity levels are likely to be lower this year.

For those of you who’ve experienced running flu campaigns you’ll know that they are complex to plan and organise and take up a lot of time and resource. In fact, Trusts report the same recurring challenges every year:

• Creating and maintaining an up to date list of staff to be vaccinated
• Working out who is and isn’t frontline
• Communicating with staff to invite and also remind them to book their vaccination
• Making it quick and easy for staff to access vaccination clinics
• Recording staff who have been vaccinated elsewhere or wish to decline and if so why
• Quickly identifying at risk groups not engaging with vaccination
• Paper based consent and vaccination details which can get lost and are slow to be manually recorded.
• Reporting internally, regionally and nationally especially into ImmForm and NIVS

Instead of using paper based processes alongside complicated spreadsheets, several trusts have found that using a seamless digital system has dramatically eased the burden of all these problems. The only complete solution is a cloud based system called FluTrack which address all these challenges. Created by healthcare workers, it has been specifically designed for NHS flu vaccination campaigns and, as a result, it’s not just another off the shelf booking or reporting system. FluTrack caters for all nuances of a healthcare worker flu campaign from start to finish. 

In fact, all Trusts that used FluTrack last year saw an increase in their uptake. They significantly reduced their admin and reporting time and they vaccinated their staff quicker. And it’s clear that staff like having a quick and easy booking system, especially one which consistently reminds them if they forget to book. FluTrack saves time, reduces costs and improves performance. 

Last year, one FluTrack user said “I wouldn’t run another flu campaign without FluTrack”.

You can find out more about FluTrack or request a demo at www.qh-solutions.com/flutrack

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