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Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccine
All patients with CKD should be advised to have an influenza vaccine by the
practice at the appropriate time each year. Efforts should be made to target the
patients who appear on the CKD register.
Pnuemococcal vaccine should also be offered to patients who remain
unimmunised. This may be given at the same time as the influenza vaccine, but
patients who have not received pneumococcal vaccine may be immunised at any
time during the year.
Contraindications, criteria and schedule for the flu and pneumococcal vaccine
and can be found in product literature and in the British National Formulary
• Influenza - http://www.bnf.org/bnf/bnf/current/6509.htm
• Pneumococcal - http://www.bnf.org/bnf/bnf/current/6490.htm
Guidelines for administration of the flu vaccine can be found in the “green book”,
“Immunisation Against Infectious Diseases”.
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