Eligible for COVID booster (HP424)

Eligible for COVID booster (HP424)

Overview/Purpose

This protocol allows users to check patient records to see if they are eligible for a COVID vaccination.

What does it do?

This protocol is available for users to launch manually to check whether patients are eligible for a COVID vaccination.

  1. You will need to select patient
  2. The protocol can be launched separately via the F12 protocol launcher list.
  3. There are a number of aspects this protocol checks for (in the background) prior to you seeing a message:
    1. Whether the vaccine has already been administered within the last 3 months
    2. Eligibility criteria
    3. Allergies or contraindications
    4. Vaccine declined
  4. A message will appear (see below screenshots), depending on which route (from the above checks) the protocol has taken.
  5. You can then select an appropriate action from the message displayed

Why is it important?

This protocol will help team members quickly and efficiently identify if a patient is eligible for a COVID vaccination. This is important because it saves time within general practice, as well as ensuring accuracy.

What does it look like?

If the patient is eligible the message will ask if an appointment is being made and choosing yes will launch an appointment booking screen.
Notes
Patients who are currently 74 but due to turn 75 by 30/06/2026 are also included in the 'Over 75' cohort


If No is chosen then there is a recommendation to remind the patient that they are eligible and if they decline the COVID vaccination there is an option to code this.


Patients who are under 75 and have a code indicating they may live in a care home will get a different message. This highlights that the care home code alone will not necessarily put them into an eligible cohort and this may need to be confirmed with the person co-ordinating the practice or PCN care home visits.  If the patient does not currently live in a care home there is an option to update that coding to ensure they get appropriate recalls in future.


Some patients have codes or medication on their record which may put them into the eligible cohort but where further clarification or checks may be needed. This is usually due to the way severely immunocompromised patients are defined in the Green Book but will need checking by an appropriate clinician before scheduling them for a COVID vaccination.



Using the protocol in practice

Info
This protocol is manually launched, this means you do not need to set any triggers for it.
Team members using this protocol will need to be shown how to add it to their F12 protocols launcher list

How to get the protocol

This protocol is automatically installed in your system. It is available via your F12 menu.

Current version

The current version of this protocol is v1.0.0