event

Thursday 1 June 2017

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This is a multi-day (consecutive) event.

Times: 09:00 - 16:00

Course Overview

The course is for professionally registered staff involved in childhood vaccinations.

The programme follows the current Public Health England Standards for Immunisation, Department of Health guidance on childhood immunisation and the Green Book.

Course content

• Applied anatomy and physiology of the immune system
• Immunisation and how vaccines work
• National policy, the current UK childhood schedule and selected other countrys childhood schedules
• Unscheduled vaccinations
• Epidemiology - Notifications of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs) and Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER)
• Vaccine preventable disease
• Legal aspects of vaccination
• Vaccine storage and handling
• Administration technique - babies and children
• Anaphylaxis Update
• Communicating with parents
• Strategies for improving vaccine uptake
• Current issues related to vaccination

Course aims and outcomes

• Be able to provide accurate and up to date information about childhood diseases and vaccines
• Provide a safe, effective and high standard of care

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If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.