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In addition to the target payment system for the vaccination and immunization of children, a doctor who vaccinates a patient in accordance with public policy may claim a fee, provided the patient is on the GP's or a partner's list, or is eligible for treatment as a temporary resident, or is staying in the area for less than 24 hours.
If the vaccination is given by a suitably qualified person employed by the GP, or staff attached to the GP's practice and working under his or her direction, it is regarded as having been provided by the GP and the fee is payable.
Doctors who are paid to vaccinate patients by another source - for example a port health authority - cannot claim fees for those vaccinations and immunizations.
In local outbreaks of disease emergency vaccination programmes are organized by health authorities. Any vaccination given by a doctor during an outbreak will qualify for payment if it is not given during a session in which the doctor is employed by the health authority, and if the person vaccinated is a member of a group for which vaccination has been recommended by the local specialist in public health medicine, or the person has been in close contact with a person suffering from the disease and the vaccination is subsequently approved by the public health medicine specialist, or the vaccination qualifies for an item-of-service payment in any case.
Claims should be made on form GMS4. Details of the diseases, the groups of persons affected for whom fees are payable and the fees are all set out in schedule 1 to paragraph 27 of the Red Book.
Box 26.1: A vaccination fee is paid if:
• vaccination is in accordance with public policy
• a patient is registered with the practice, a temporary resident, or staying in the area for less than 24 hours
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