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Increasing vaccination uptake and reducing pressure on healthcare staff with our digital immunisation programme Child Immunisation Brochure
Increasing vaccination uptake and reducing pressure on healthcare staff with our digital immunisation programme
Child Immunisation
Brochure
What are the challenges for healthcare providers?• Manual process of sending and collecting letters from parents and guardians means that forms are
often lost or forgotten about, and completion of paper forms is low.• Routine rates of childhood vaccinations across the UK are reducing (NHS Digital, March 2019).• Completed forms can be difficult to read.• Paper forms require manual re-entry into clinical record.• On the vaccination day, information is captured on paper, making it time consuming and open to error.• No overall visibility of uptake across schools or the region.
As a result of successful immunisation programmes, the UK has seen significant reductions in serious and potentially life-threatening infections.
The Inhealthcare solution Inhealthcare provides digital immunisation consent and health questionnaires to more than 150,000 parents and guardians as part of school aged immunisation programmes at five different NHS organisations in the UK.
These digital services provide parents and guardians with a fully digital solution to enrol their children on immunisation programmes, avoiding traditional manual paper based processes.
It also provides parents and guardians with more information on the benefits of immunisation programmes to increase confidence.
The programme offers huge efficiencies for healthcare providers as the solution automates the process of triage and removes any manual transcription of data into clinical systems.
The digital child immunisation service enables consent from parents to be gathered at speed, avoiding the need for written letters to be sent home to parents.
For a variety of reasons, some individuals may not be fully vaccinated, and since 2013 there has been a decline in the uptake of childhood vaccines in England.
Recent findings show a fall in children getting vaccinated, with analysis showing that one in seven children aged five had not had both doses of essential measles jabs. 1
1 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immunisations-applying-all-our-health
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How does the service work?
Before the vaccination: information gathering
• Working with community providers and schools, the service sends parents/guardians an email with a link to an online questionnaire.
• They complete the questionnaire and the information about their child is fed securely back to Inhealthcare and verified against the NHS Spine.
• Once the information reaches Inhealthcare, if potential contraindications are detected, a notification is raised for healthcare professionals to review the response.
• The children eligible for immunisation are automatically booked into an immunisation session and the parent/guardian informed by an automated email.
On the day of the vaccination
• Staff have access to vaccination lists within a mobile application which works both on and offline. Having visibility of the children to vaccinate in advance, ensures healthcare professionals can be better prepared and removes waste.
• Once the vaccination has been given, the GP record is updated. Customised dashboards provide real-time population uptake across the given demographic.
• Any child who does not turn up or refuses the vaccination, is automatically booked on to the next session, and the parent/guardian is notified by email.
• After the vaccination has been given, the parent/guardian is sent a confirmation along with details of the dose and batch number.
“ It has been a positive start at our pilot sessions for the school aged immunisation service using Inhealthcare e-consent. The team expressed that it was easy and quick to use during the school immunisation sessions and made for a more efficient service on the day.
They are looking forward to it being rolled out for the entire school aged immunisation programme.
Sarah Jolly - Clinical Team Lead, Solent NHS Trust: School Aged Immunisations
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Find out more at www.inhealthcare.co.uk
Results
Parents and guardians complete an online
questionnaire
Parent responses are triaged by the clinical team if there are
any contradictions
The childs details are verified by PDS and the parent recieves and
email link to the quesionaire
The patient completes the questionaire using
an online web form
The system shows full visibility of uptake rates
across the region
Parents are notified of the vaccination date for their
child
Responses are recieved and are uploaded to the GP and
Community record
On the day of vaccination staff use a tablet to
capture immunisations and batch information
GPRecord
83% 50% 13 / 15
Increased 1st wave uptake within one
region to 83%
Community staff in one region reduced the amount of time spent at schools for
vaccination sessions by 50%
One region redeployed 13 out of 15 member of staff previously administering
service
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