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Support good practice across GP practices within the cluster/ PCPG

  • Encourage practices and community pharmacies to work together on their flu plans. 
  • Encourage them to plan the campaign at a team meeting early in the year. 
  • Encourage them to engage with a wide group of healthcare workers in their planning e.g. midwives can help actively encourage pregnant women to get their vaccine; care home staff may actively encourage residents and staff to get their vaccine. 
  • Require/ request an end-of-season practice flu report. 
  • Remind clinical staff of appropriate training opportunities. 
  • Encourage them to offer flu vaccine to staff with direct patient contact as a priority. 
  • Remind practices they are required to invite eligible individuals to have their flu vaccine and that it makes a difference to vaccine uptake. 
  • Encourage them to utilise different formats of invitation and signpost to resources that will help such as template invitation letters in a range of minority languages. 
  • Remind them on the importance of recording timely accurate data and the benefits of data cleansing. 
  • Advise on the benefits of accessing their IVOR data and show them how to do it. 
  • Signpost to promotional resources such as posters, leaflets and stickers. 
  • Encourage opportunistic immunisation. 
  • Remind them how they are doing with flu vaccine uptake on a regular basis. 
  • Support ordering adequate supplies of appropriate vaccines in a timely way.