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Influenza Vaccination for Winter 2014/15 Children & adults in clinical risk groups: Chronic respiratory disease Chronic heart disease Chronic liver disease Chronic kidney disease Chronic neurological disease Diabetes Immunosuppression All pregnant women (at any stage of pregnancy) Children aged two years to less than 18 years Yes Can they receive Fluenz Tetra®?5 All people aged 65 & over1 No No Other2 Health & social care workers. People in long-stay residential care homes or other long-stay facilities. Carers Household contacts of immunocompromised patients One dose of inactivated influenza vaccine First dose of inactivated influenza vaccine4 If never received influenza vaccine before & two years to less than 9 years of age, give second dose of Fluenz Tetra® at least four weeks later No Can they receive Fluenz Tetra®?5 Yes Yes First dose of Fluenz Tetra® influenza vaccine Children aged two, three or four years who are not in a clinical risk group3 If never received influenza vaccine before & aged 6 months to less than 9 years of age, give second dose at least 4 weeks later One dose of Fluenz Tetra® influenza vaccine Chart summarising the advice on influenza vaccination for the 2014/15 influenza vaccination programme. This chart should be read in conjunction with the contraindications and precautions sections and also with the table overleaf that gives details about the age indications for influenza vaccines. 1 all those aged 65 years or older including all those aged 65 years on or before 1 March 2015 2 follow additional guidance from UK health departments 3 all children aged two three or four years (but not five years or older) on or before 1 Sept 2014* 4 if quadrivalent inactivated vaccine available, consider for children age three years and older only. If quadrivalent unavailable, offer suitable trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine. See table 19.6 in the green book which lists the vaccines that can be used in young children - some are not suitable for young children. 5 cannot receive if: under age of two years; 18 years and older; have egg allergy; a history of active wheezing at the time of vaccination (until at least 7 days after wheezing has stopped); on oral steroids or high dose inhaled steroids for asthma; certain immunod-eficiencies; or pregnant. see contraindications and precautions for full list and details *Note: In addition to these age groups the devolved administrations will also offer influenza vaccination to children aged 5 years old (Scotland), all primary school children (Scotland & Northern Ireland) and Children in year 7 (Wales). All children aged two to less than five years old All those aged two, three and four years old (but not five years or older) on 1 September 2014 (ie date of birth on or after 2 September 2009 and on or before 1 September 2012). In the interests of maintaining the highest level of safety, and in order to set a clear and manageable limit, healthy children that turn two after the 1 September should not be offered the vaccine. School-aged children who are part of the pilot childhood programme Seven geographical pilots of primary school aged children started in 2013/14 will continue. Pilots of secondary school aged children in Years 7 and 8 will start in 2014/15. Immunisation for school-aged children will be directly commissioned by NHS England. All patients aged 65 years and over "Sixty-five and over" is defined as those aged 65 years and over on 31 March 2015 (ie born on or before 31 March 1950). Chronic respiratory disease aged six months or older Asthma that requires continuous or repeated use of inhaled or systemic steroids or with previous exacerbations requiring hospital admission. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) including chronic bronchitis and emphysema; bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung fibrosis, pneumoconiosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Children who have previously been admitted to hospital for lower respiratory tract disease. Chronic heart disease aged six months or older Congenital heart disease, hypertension with cardiac complications, chronic heart failure, individuals requiring regular medication and/or follow-up for ischaemic heart disease. Chronic kidney disease aged six months or older Chronic kidney disease at stage 3, 4 or 5, chronic kidney failure, nephrotic syndrome, kidney transplantation. Chronic liver disease aged six months or older Cirrhosis, biliary atresia, chronic hepatitis neurological disease aged six months or older Stroke, transient ischaemic attack (TIA). Conditions in which respiratory function may be compromised due to neurological disease (e.g. polio syndrome sufferers). Clinicians should consider on an individual basis the clinical needs of patients including individuals with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and related or similar conditions; or hereditary and degenerative disease of the nervous system or muscles; or severe neurological or severe learning disability. Diabetes aged six months or older Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes requiring insulin or oral hypoglycaemic drugs, diet controlled diabetes. Immunosuppression aged six months or older Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment, including patients undergoing chemotherapy leading to immunosuppression, bone marrow transplant, HIV infection at all stages, multiple myeloma or genetic disorders affecting the immune system (e.g. IRAK-4, NEMO, compliment deficiency). Individuals treated with or likely to be treated with systemic steroids for more than a month at a dose equivalent to prednisolone at 20mg or more per day (any age), or for children under 20kg, a dose of 1mg or more per kg per day. It is difficult to define at what level of immunosuppression a patient could be considered to be at a greater risk of the serious consequences of influenza and should be offered influenza vaccination. This decision is best made on an individual basis and left to the patient’s clinician.Some immunocompromised patients may have a suboptimal immunological response to the vaccine. Asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen This also includes conditions such as homozygous sickle cell disease and coeliac syndrome that may lead to splenic dysfunction. Pregnant women Pregnant women at any stage of pregnancy (first, second or third trimesters). People in long-stay residential or homes Vaccination is recommended for people living in long-stay residential care homes or other long-stay care facilities where rapid spread is likely to follow introduction of infection and cause high morbidity and mortality. This does not include, for instance, prisons, young offender institutions, or university halls of residence. Carers Those who are in receipt of a carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill. Health and social care staff Health and social care workers who are in direct contact with patients/service users should be vaccinated by their employer as part of an occupational health programme The list above is not exhaustive, and the healthcare practitioner should apply clinical judgement to take into account the risk of flu exacerbating any underlying disease that a patient may have, as well as the risk of serious illness from flu itself. Flu vaccine should be offered in such cases even if the individual is not in the clinical risk groups specified above.