Agreement over Admin Fee for Swine Flu

Tue, 15 Sep 2009
GP practices are going to be paid £5.25 for every dose of the swine flu vaccine administered, the Department of Health has revealed.

It is anticipated that patients are going to receive two doses of the vaccine, which means practices will be paid £10.50 in total per patient.

The swine flu vaccination programme, which is anticipated to start in the autumn, is going to target the 9 million people who are considered at greatest risk of flu complications. People are going to be prioritised in this order:

Those aged 6 months plus and under 65 years in present seasonal flu vaccine clinical at-risk groups (approximately 5 million people).

All pregnant women (around 0.5 million people).

Household contacts of people with challenged immune systems, such as, those individuals who are in frequent close contact with patients undergoing cancer treatment (approximately 0.5 million people).

Those aged 65 and over in the present seasonal flu vaccine clinical at-risk groups (about 3.5 million people). This excludes otherwise healthy 65 plusses, as they appear to have a certain degree of natural immunity to the virus.

The funding for this programme is going to come from the Department of Health’s budget. It is going to be used to assist surgeries contact patients, administer the vaccine and, if necessary, employ extra staff.

Oxford University has expressed grave concern about Tamiflu upon discovering that prescribing this vaccine lowers the symptoms of seasonal flu by only a day.

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