Guidance and resources

Learn how to safely manage workload for the benefit of patients, yourself and your practice team, while working within the requirements of your contract.

Your quick reference guide to useful resources to help manage your workload and avoid unsafe situations for both practitioners and patients.

This supports practices in developing risk mitigation measures, responding to incidents and taking the appropriate steps following an incident.

Updates on requirements, best practice and changes to how the programme is run.

In August 2024 the UKHSA issued an updated vaccination communications toolkit for students, covering measles, mumps, meningitis, Covid and other relevant vaccinations.

The routine immunisation for RSV became an essential service under the GP contract from 1 September 2024.

This summer the vaccine for pertussis during pregnancy changed, practices are also advised to check their coding of vaccinations.

This year's eligibility is similar to last year, with co-administration with flu vaccines encouraged.

This year's campaign asks practices to vaccinate the majority of eligible cohorts from October onwards rather than starting earlier in the year.

London practices have the option of using a home visiting service for delivery and not receiving IOS fees.

This data shows the financial impact on practices of the decision to omit patient choice exception reporting from the indicators for the 2023/24 QOF contract.

This page collects together public and practice facing guidance around measles, including the campaign to increase mumps, measles and rubella vaccine (MMR) uptake.