Toggle Side Panel

Children’s influenza vaccination service specifications

max
MariaPCC 3 July 2026

The children’s seasonal influenza vaccination service specifications for 2026/27 have now been published.

General practice
The GP Enhanced Service (ES) specification for children is available. Under the ES the cohorts eligible for an influenza vaccination from 1 September 2026 are children aged:

  • 2 to 3 years old
  • 6 months to 17 years in a clinical risk group

GPs will be able to sign up to participate in the ES on CQRS. All practices will also need to sign up to the related claiming service on CQRS to enable payments, including those who intend to collaborate in their PCN to deliver the service but not administer vaccinations themselves.

Community pharmacy
It has been agreed to extend and expand the children’s flu vaccination pilot in 2026/27, and the childhood flu advanced service (AS) specification is available. Under the AS the cohorts now eligible for an influenza vaccination are children aged:

  • 2 to 3 years old (from 1 October)
  • 2 years to 17 years in a clinical at risk group (from 1 October)
  • school aged children (from 1 December)

For 2026/27, the Item of Service fee will be £10.06.

If pharmacy contractors wish to provide this service, they must register on MYS from 10 June and ideally by 31 August.

Categories: News

Report

Block Member?

Please confirm you want to block this member.

You will no longer be able to:

  • See blocked member's posts
  • Mention this member in posts
  • Invite this member to groups
  • Message this member
  • Add this member as a connection

Please note: This action will also remove this member from your connections and send a report to the site admin. Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.

Report

You have already reported this .
Keep up to date

Sign up to receive our daily news alerts straight to your inbox. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter containing a summary of the week’s news, blog and vote on our poll.

Weekly Newsletter

Daily news updates

Have a discussion

Help keep the conversation going between meetings by creating a forum to hold discussions with your members. It’s an easy way to manage and communicate with members.

Create a network

Create a network to share documents, knowledge and best practice with your colleagues. Set up a network to keep in touch with other people in your organisation or with shared interest groups across organisational boundaries.

Networks can be open to all or available only to a closed group defined by the administrator.

Join or create a network here.