SEASONAL FLU 2025-2026 TRAINING MATERIALS AND MEN B INFORMATION
Please find below links to updated training materials for the seasonal flu programme and information on Men B
SEASONAL FLU TRAINING MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
The healthcare professional information document has been updated and is published.
So all of the key training materials for flu are all to hand, please also see the links to the e-learning and slide set. Note that ‘the national flu immunisation programme for 2025 to 2026 slideset’ appears at the top of the 2025 to 2026 annual flu collection and is available to download.
MENB
Following queries regarding short intervals between the first and second dose of MenB vaccine in the programme for infants, please see information below:
UKHSA has identified that their guidance doesn’t specify what to do if the second dose is given less than 4 weeks after the first dose.
Please see the wording below which will soon be added to the MenB information for healthcare professionals document to clarify:
What to do if the second dose of MenB vaccine is given less than 4 weeks after the first dose
Providing there is a minimum interval of 3 weeks (21 days) between the two doses of MenB vaccine, the second dose does not need to be repeated. If the second dose is administered at a shorter interval than 3 weeks, it should be discounted, and an additional dose should be administered at least 4 weeks after the inadvertent dose was given (it may be given at the routine 3rd immunisation visit at 16 weeks of age). As MenB vaccine was originally trialled and licensed as a 3-dose schedule given at least one month apart in infancy, an additional dose is acceptable and would not be expected to produce side effects beyond what may be seen following the first or second dose.
This information is intended to be used in exceptional circumstances, such as an inadvertent administration error. Deviation from the routine schedule should not be encouraged.
Please contact our team at england.londonimms@nhs.net with any queries.
Kind regards
London Immunisation Team
NHS England – London Region