034 Eligibility - 034A Eligible for Pneumococcal vaccination searches

034 Eligibility - 034A Eligible for Pneumococcal vaccination searches

This folder sits within 020 Practice Administration.

These searches are provided to help Practices call and recall patients based on the criteria specified by the PPV Enhanced Service. 

Cohorts for pneumo vaccination

This folder contains 4 searches representing the cohorts who are eligible to receive a pneumo vaccination according to the Green Book and Enhanced Service specification. There are no exclusions in this folder for patients declining or vaccinations given, so they should not be used for call/recall purposes
  1. PA-323a) Age 65 and above : those patients who have had their 65th birthday. There is no upper age limit.
  2. PA-320) At risk conditions and over 65 combined : any patient who has a code on their record for a specified condition indicating they are at-risk and eligible to receive a pneumococcal vaccination.
  3. PA-323b) Age 2-64 at risk : patients aged between 2 and 64 who appear in the above At risk conditions search.
  4. PA-324) Turning 65 : patients turning 65 to invite for a vaccination.

Invite for pneumococcal PPV vaccine
This overarching search represents the total number of patients who are currently eligible to receive a vaccine who have not previously received a pneumococcal PPV vaccine. We do not recommend using this search to invite patients. Patients who have previously declined are still technically eligible but are not included - reference the declined search in Data Admin for these patients.
Patients who have been previously invited but have not accepted the offer of a vaccine remain eligible although there is no requirement for Practices to send a second invitation. If a second invitation is desired, a child search could be added which looks at patients of a certain age - keep the age range relatively small to manage supply and demand.

Patients over 65 eligible for pneumo invitation
Patients who have not previously received a pneumo vaccination, have not declined a vaccination in the last 5 years, and have not been invited in the last 12 months. 

Patients over 2-64 eligible for pneumo invitation
At-risk patients who have not previously received a pneumo vaccination, have not declined a vaccination in the last 5 years, and have not been invited in the last 12 months.

Turning 65 for pneumo invitation
Patients who are aged between 64y11m and 65y2m. Regular running of this search and inviting patients accordingly will ensure they are invited and ready to receive their 1st dose soon after their 65th birthday.
If patients do not respond to a coded recall they will continue to appear in this search, in a frequency which will be exaggerated for those immunocompromised patients who would appear every 8 weeks. If Practices feel that this frequency is too much, it would be possible to amend the 'Exclude' feature in each rule to a longer timeframe.

Data Admin

Declined pneumoccoccal vaccine
All patients who have declined a pneumo vaccine in the last 5 years. The 5 year window has been chosen by PCIT to provide a balance between not recalling more frequently and reflecting how a patient remains eligible for the remainder of their life. 

Received pneumococcal vaccination
This search simply counts the patients in the 3 main cohorts (Age 65+; Age 2-64 at risk; those coded with Requires pneumococcal vaccination) who have at least one pneumo vaccination code on their record when from when they were at least 2 years old.

Coding

Relevant coding for vaccination administration is provided below. 
Invitation
Pneumococcal vaccination invitation letter sent     [415118009]
Pneumococcal vaccination invitation first letter sent     [200811000000103]
Pneumococcal vaccination invitation second letter sent     [200821000000109]
Pneumococcal vaccination invitation third letter sent     [200841000000102]
Pneumococcal vaccination verbal invitation      [340801000000104]
Pneumococcal vaccination invitation SMS sent     [950331000000105]

Declined
Pneumococcal vaccination declined [401086001]
Pneumococcal vaccination declined by caregiver      [139731000119106]

Requires pneumo vaccination
Requires a pneumococcal vaccination      [247951000000102]

References


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