In 2012, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommended that the routine annual influenza vaccination programme should be extended to children aged 2-17. These children would receive the nasal flu vaccine. Locally, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust was commissioned to offer and provide vaccination to children in years 1-6 in primary schools, or aged 5-11 years. There are occasions where children, for whom we have a positive consent form, cannot be vaccinated in school because they are unwell. In the past we have used community clinics to offer these children a second opportunity to be vaccinated, but these community climes have proven cumbersome to set up and staff and have had poor uptake.
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