Guidelines

Articles, documents and links to documents that may be useful for health professionals offering on-call disease management and vaccination advice and for those providing a vaccination service are available on this page.

Immunisation schedule

• Immunisation against Infectious Disease (The Green Book)
• Vaccination schedule 
• Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status (PDF, 83 KB)

Immunisation of immunocompromised people

• Immunisation of the Immunocompromised Child - February 2002 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Immunoglobulin guidelines:

• Immunoglobulin Handbook - Indications and dosage for normal and specific immunoglobulin preparations issued by the HPA and NHS laboratories

Vaccine Incident Guidance

• Investigation of a Cold Chain Incident (PDF, 149 KB)

Disease specific guidelines

• Diphtheria
• Haemophilus influenzae type b(Hib) disease
• Hepatitis 
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
• Influenza
• H1N1
• Measles
• Meningococcal disease
• Mumps
• Pertussis
• Pneumococcal disease
• Polio
• Rabies
• Rubella
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Varicella(Chickenpox)

Travel guidelines

• National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)
• Health information for Overseas Travel (The Yellow Book)