Starting to plan your annual NHS staff vaccination campaign?

It’s that time of year again when you’ll be starting to plan your annual staff vaccination campaign. As we exit the pandemic and face significant staffing pressures in the health service, vaccination is more important than ever to keep your staff and patients safe. 

The indications from southern hemisphere countries are that flu is worse than ever this year with diagnosis rates higher than last year. And virologists are predicting that respiratory illnesses will be significantly worse this winter than in previous years. Given current staffing pressures within the NHS, an efficient, well delivered staff vaccination campaign is going to be essential to ensure safe healthcare services are delivered and maintained throughout winter.

For those of you who’ve experienced running staff vaccination 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
• Difficulties in co-administering flu and COVID vaccination clinics
• Communicating with staff to invite and remind them to book their vaccination
• Making it quick and easy for staff to access vaccination
• Recording staff who have been vaccinated elsewhere or wish to decline and 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, NHS organisations have found that using a seamless digital system has dramatically eased the burden of all these problems. The only available end to end solution is a cloud based system called VaccinationTrack which addresses all these challenges. 

Created by healthcare workers, it has been specifically designed for NHS staff vaccination campaigns and, as a result, it’s not just another off the shelf booking or reporting system. VaccinationTrack caters for all nuances of a healthcare worker flu and COVID vaccination campaign from start to finish. 

VaccinationTrack is already being used in twenty NHS organisations and all trusts that used it last year saw an increase in their uptake. They significantly reduced their admin and reporting time and they vaccinated their staff quicker. Feedback from staff is that they like having a quick and easy booking system, especially one which consistently reminds them if they forget to book. VaccinationTrack saves time, reduces costs and improves vaccination uptake. 

Last year, one VaccinationTrack user said “this software has transformed the way we deliver our staff vaccination, I would not run another vaccination campaign without it’

You can find out more about VaccinationTrack and request a demo at www.qh-solutions.com

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