Immunisation patient group direction (PGD) templates
PGD templates to support national immunisation programmes provided on the NHS.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) immunisation patient group direction (PGD) templates have been developed and ratified in accordance with UKHSA PGD policy. They have been signed by a doctor, nurse and pharmacist, from UKHSA鈥檚 national immunisation team, who have been involved in the PGDs development.
UKHSA immunisation PGD templates require further authorisation, in Section 2 of the PGD document before they can be used. This should be by an appropriate authorising person, relating to the class of person by whom product is to be supplied, in accordance with the (HMR). This may be a clinical governance or patient safety lead, who has designated responsibility for signing PGDs on behalf of the authorising body. The PGD is not legal or valid without signed authorisation in accordance with .
Adoption and governance of the use of UKHSA PGDs is the responsibility of the authorising organisation and provider.
Provider organisations, health professionals and immunisation practitioners should check they are working to the current PGD versions and only work to documents authorised in accordance with .
These PGDs should be used with reference to the Green Book, and for the vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccine patient group directions (PGDs)
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Primary to pre-school immunisations
School age immunisations
Adult immunisations
Individuals at increased risk
Seasonal influenza
In addition to the PGD templates for the seasonal influenza programme which are provided below, a PGD template for is published by NHS England and NHS Improvement and a National protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine is also available for the 2022 to 2023 season.
Updates to this page
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Added 'Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine: PGD template'.
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Added 'Live attenuated influenza vaccine: patient group direction (PGD) template'.
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Added link to latest COVID-19 national protocols and PGDs.
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Removed links to PGDs and protocols.
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Added 'National protocol for COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (5 to 17 years of age)' and link to the PGD.
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Added link to the PGD for COVID-19 vaccine (adults).
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Updated COVID-19 section.
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Added link to the COVID-19 vaccine (5 to 17 years of age) PGD.
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Added link to the COVID-19 vaccine (adults) PGD.
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Added 'Varicella vaccine (live): patient group direction (PGD)'.
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Added 'Diphtheria disease and azithromycin: PGD template'.
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Added link to the PGD for the Comirnaty庐 Original/Omicron BA.1 (15/15 micrograms)/dose COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
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Added link to the PGD for Spikevax庐 Original/Omicron COVID-19 vaccine.
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Added Smallpox vaccine PGD template.
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Added link to the Vaxzevria COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1-S [recombinant]) PGD.
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Added link to the PGD for COVID-19 Comirnaty庐 10micrograms/dose mRNA vaccine.
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Added links to Comirnaty庐 PGD, National protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine and Pharmacy Influenza Vaccination Programme PGD.
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Added shingles vaccine (Shingrix庐) PGD template.
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Added link to the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna PGD.
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Added link to COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1-S [recombinant]) PGD.
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Added link to COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer/BioNTech) PGD.
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Added the Flublok Quadrivalent vaccine: patient group direction template.
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Added new HPV PGD which includes boys as well as girls from September 2019.
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Added BCG Vaccine AJV PGD template.
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Added the 'Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for MSM: PGD template' template.
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Added Hepatitis A/Typhoid vaccine and Typhoid Vi vaccine PGDs.
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Added 'Hepatitis A vaccine' and 'Hepatitis A/B vaccine' patient group direction (PGD) templates to 'Individuals at increased risk' group.
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Added new PGD templates for the introduction of hexavalent vaccine into the national immunisation programme and the administration of DTaP/IPV/Hib as a pre-school booster.
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Added hepatitis B PGD and hepatitis B for renal patients PGD.
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Addition of MenB risk groups, MenACWY risk groups, PCV risk groups patient group directions.
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New PGD template for Hib/MenC risk groups.
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Added Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV): patient group direction (PGD) template
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Added Human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), adolescent females: PGD template.
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New PGD template to support the national MMR vaccination programme.
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Addition of 'PCV (13-valent, adsorbed) PGD template' and 'Hib/MenC PGD template'.
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Added 3 PGD templates: DTaP/IPV; DTaP/IPV/Hib; and dTaP/IPV for pregnant women.
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Addition of Diphtheria, tetanus and inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (Td/IPV - Revaxis庐): patient group direction (PGD) template
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Addition of Inactivated influenza vaccine (Intanza庐): patient group direction (PGD) template.
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PGDs for Fluenz Tetra庐 and for the administration of intramuscular inactivated influenza vaccine.
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Added MenB patient group direction template
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New Patient group direction (PGD) templates to support the national vaccination programmes for Meningococcal A,C,W and Y.
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First published.