Vaccine resources for health and social care professionals - Vaccine information
Resources on our immunisation and vaccine pages do not replace the clinical judgement of practitioners. Practitioners should refer to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) immunisation against infectious disease (Green Book) for latest information on administering vaccines and vaccination procedures, for vaccine preventable infectious diseases in the UK.
Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) data sheets and patient leaflets can be searched for on the electronic Medicines Compendium (click the link, type in the name of the vaccine (e.g. polio) into the search box, then click Go).
Medicines complete (formerly British National Formulary (BNF) and now a part of MedicinesComplete) is also useful for information on specific vaccines/immunoglobulin:
The Oxford Vaccine Group provides information on vaccines, infectious diseases, vaccine safety and science. The group have produced a useful resource outlining the ingredients in vaccines (Vaccine safety and science section):
You can order vaccination leaflets, posters and other resources at Health Information Resources.
National Immunisation Framework for Wales
The National Immunisation Framework for Wales was published by Welsh Government in October 2022. It has been developed to build on the exemplar delivery of vaccination and immunisation programmes and to pave the way for vaccine transformation in Wales. The framework sets out six key priority areas of focus: vaccination equity; digitally enabled vaccination; eligibility; public vaccination literacy; deployment; and governance.
Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is an independent expert advisory committee that provides immunisation advice to UK health authorities, including vaccination schedules and vaccine safety recommendations. In Wales, it has a statutory responsibility.
The JCVI website contains information, annual reports, meeting minutes, announcements, statements, advice, recommendations, and archived content.
Green Book
The Green Book has the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures, for vaccine preventable infectious diseases in the UK.
Immunisation schedules
The complete immunisation schedule includes information about routine and non-routine vaccinations.
Schedules: UK and other countries
The UK routine immunisation schedule covers all children and adults. Additional vaccines are recommended for certain high risk individuals e.g. Hep B, BCG, pneumococcal and meningococcal vaccines. For more information please see the relevant chapters of the Green Book.
Vaccine eligibility information in Wales and England may differ for some programmes.
- UK immunisation schedule: the green book, chapter 11
- A visual guide to vaccines for the routine vaccination programme
Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status
The links below detail a reminder, based on the Green Book, to help health professionals vaccinate people correctly to protect them and their families from disease.
Please refer to Welsh Policy Changes to routine childhood and selective neonatal hepatitis B vaccinations on the Welsh government website for further information.
- Shingles vaccination programme in Wales. People aged between 65-70 can be offered shingles vaccination if operationally possible.
- View the vaccine uptake in the general population
Individuals vaccinated according to a non-UK schedule
If children and adults coming to the UK are not known to have been completely immunised, they should be assumed to be unimmunised, and a full course of immunisations should be planned.
See immunisation schedules in the UK and other countries above for links to immunisation schedules information.
- WHO Immunization Data portal
- Global Immunisation Schedules
- The Pink Book: Epidemiology of Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Vaccine preventable disease terms in multiple languages
- Vaccine Scheduler
- Vaccine Product Information – Order Vaccines and Contact Manufacturers
Immunisation of individuals with underlying medical conditions
Immunisation protocols for post-transplant patients and persons with cancer or leukaemia can be found below:
Adults
Children
Note: Please refer to national childhood immunisation programme changes alongside the following protocol guidance.
- Paediatric post standard chemotherapy immunisation protocol (solid cancers and leukaemia)
- Vaccinations for paediatric patients treated with standard-dose chemotherapy and haemopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients
Immunisation of healthcare and laboratory staff
The Green Book Chapter 12 contains information for public health professionals on immunisation of healthcare and laboratory staff.
Immunisation in pregnancy
Advice for health professionals on pregnant women who are inadvertently vaccinated against chicken pox (varicella), shingles or measles, mumps, rubella.
Vaccine equity
The fair access to vaccination in Wales page includes resources and guidance from Public Health Wales and others to support NHS Wales to reduce inequity and inequalities in vaccine coverage.
Page last reviewed: 9th April 2026