PRIMIS has developed and released a specification document for system suppliers to prepare a bulk extraction audit on pertussis vaccination in pregnancy (GP practices in England). This specification document has been commissioned by Public Health England/ImmForm.
The bulk extraction programme will start in May 2014 and will look at how many women who delivered after 28 weeks gestation had been vaccinated for pertussis.
This follows Public Health England’s recent announcement of the introduction of a temporary pertussis vaccination programme for pregnant women (those between 28 – 38 weeks of their pregnancy).
GP practices will not need to complete anything themselves. The bulk extraction of required data will happen automatically through the GP IT system.
Although practices won’t need to do anything to run the audits themselves, they should be looking at their recording against pregnancy codes. Dr Dai Evans, PRIMIS Clinical Adviser, who has written the specification has also prepared a document of advisory Read codes to support the pertussis programme and this is available for practices to download.
This document details examples of reasonable Read codes to capture delivery details and concepts, such as premature birth, vaccination declined and vaccination administered. A document listing the pertussis vaccination business rules is also available.
PRIMIS urges all practices to clean up their practice data and to ensure they are routinely capturing the right data before the bulk extractions are made. The GP IT systems will be automatically running the pertussis bulk extract after the third week of each calendar month.
Two documents are available to download:
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