Aldergate Medical PracticeCovid Vaccines Given Abroad
NEW: Overseas Vaccination Record Validation Service
From 9 December, the public is now able to book a face to face appointment at selected sites across the country using www.nhs.uk – Tell the NHS about coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations you’ve had abroad or by calling 119, to have their overseas vaccination records validated and recorded.
The new service will capture evidence of COVID-19 vaccinations administered in countries outside of England and have these recorded. To be eligible to use the service people must:
- have received one of the four MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) approved vaccine types for use in England: AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria) / Pfizer/BioNTech (Comirnaty) / Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) / or Moderna (Spikevax)
- be aged 18 or over
- have an NHS number
- be able to attend the face to face appointment with photographic ID (Passport or UK Driving Licence) and evidence of their vaccination record.
Where a patient cannot get their overseas vaccine recorded, for example, because they live too far away from one of the vaccination centres offering this service, the patient can still access subsequent doses for which they are eligible, either through attending a walk-in (if they already know which vaccine type they require, and the interval period), or through seeking advice from their GP about which subsequent vaccine(s) they need.
Currently, it is not possible for us to record details of COVID vaccines in such a way that it will appear on the NHS app.
The vaccine information which appears on the NHS App is taken from IT systems used in the vaccine centres around the country, not a patient’s GP records.
Vaccines received in the UK not appearing on the NHS App
If you have had a vaccine in the UK, but it is not showing on the NHS App, it’s likely that there has been some kind of problem at the vaccine clinic. Either it was not entered correctly onto the IT system, or the IT system has failed to upload it onto the NHS App. If you are in this situation, please contact the centre where you received your COVID vaccine.
Vaccines received outside the UK
If you received either one or both of your vaccine doses outside of the UK, we can enter this onto your GP record. It would be useful for us to have this information on your health records, and you can send it to us. (including the manufacturer and the date it was given).
However, at present, this information will not appear on the NHS app. This may change but that would require changes to the NHS App and it is outside of our control.
Therefore vaccines administered overseas cannot be recorded onto the UK National Immunisation Management system (NIMS) which is the system used to show your vaccination status in the NHS App. Therefore the ability to show any “overseas” Vaccination Certificate and request a Vaccination Passport is not currently available from the NHS.
Once we have entered your COVID vaccine details onto your record, the only way that it may be possible to have it logged onto the NHS app is to raise your query with NHS 119.
Any queries regarding these issues need to be directed to NHS 119 or to NHS App support rather than the GP practice: NHS App: Contact Us