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Recording vaccinations

Handling HPV vaccinations for immunosuppressed children

Children who are immunosuppressed should have 3 doses of the HPV vaccine over a 12 month period.

You can use Mavis in the usual way to:

  • get consent for the 1st dose of the HPV vaccine
  • record the vaccination

After the 1st dose, Mavis will not automatically include immunosuppressed children in additional school sessions or clinics.

Mavis will not let parents know that their child needs a 2nd or 3rd dose, or where to get it.

The consent that was given for the 1st vaccination will remain on the child’s record in Mavis, and will be valid for subsequent doses of the vaccine.

As you cannot add children who need 2nd or 3rd doses to upcoming sessions in Mavis, you should:

  1. Phone or email the parent or guardian to invite the child to the relevant session (if the child self-consented under Gillick competence and asked for their parents not to be notified, contact the child directly). You’ll also need to confirm health information for the child.

  2. Record the additional HPV dose in your offline spreadsheet (see Preparing to work offline.

  3. Upload the spreadsheet into Mavis - this will import the new HPV vaccination to the child’s record.

Note:

Mavis does not currently distinguish between 1st, 2nd or 3rd doses of the HPV vaccine, so each time a dose is recorded, the status will show as ‘Vaccinated’ for HPV.

For details on how to upload vaccinations recorded on a spreadsheet into Mavis, see the ‘Recording vaccinations offline’ section of the user guide.