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Shingles Eligibility – System Searches

Download automated search files to support with the identification of patients eligible for shingles vaccination, as part of the Shingles National Immunisation Programme.

Adverse events reporting and prescribing information can be found at the bottom of the page.

Healthcare professionals have been consulted by GSK and received honorarium.

Finding it challenging to identify your practice's eligible patients?

The NHS provides SNOMED codes that support the identification of immunocompetent and severely immunocompromised patients eligible for shingles vaccination under the National Immunisation Programme. However, we understand that this can sometimes be complex for us all to navigate, especially for severely immunocompromised patients where there are over 8,000 different codes indicating patient eligibility.1

System Searches for Patient Identification

To support the simplification of patient identification, pre-populated system searches compiling SNOMED codes that indicate eligibility for shingles vaccination have been developed and are ready to be simply imported into your electronic health record systems. Detailed in the user guides (specific to EMIS Web, EMIS V2 or SystmOne) are the simple 3 steps to follow to begin reducing your administrative time manually building searches to identify eligible patients and support the protection of eligible patients from shingles.

The search criteria reflects the Shingles National Immunisation Programme guidance as per the Greenbook Chapter 28a. Guidance regarding the eligibility of severely immunocompromised (IC) individuals is consistent throughout the United Kingdom. There is however some variation in eligibility for older adults who are not severely immunocompromised in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The system searches have been developed by GSK in partnership with Interface Clinical Services.

The system searches have been created to support practices who face challenges with identification of eligible patients, and who may not have access to Ardens system search support.

The system searches do not make clinical decisions and are not intended to replace individual clinical judgement of the HCP using the search outputs. Clinical review is required of the lists created. The outputs are reliant on the accuracy of electronic health record (EHR) data and patient coding. The relevant Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) should be consulted when making treatment decisions for an individual’s management.

The system searches have been created to identify patients who are eligible for their first dose of shingles vaccination only.

  1. Download EMIS Web or EMIS V2 System Searches
  2. Save the files: User Guide, Immunocompetent Search File and Severely Immunocompromised Search File

    These files will either be saved directly into your downloads, or will open as new browser tabs (which may require accepting pop-ups). To save the files that open as new tabs, right click on the page and select 'Save as'.

  3. Import the downloaded searches into EMIS Web or EMIS V2
  4. Run the searches
  5. View & export the patient lists

EMIS Web

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In line with the NHS England Digital Business rules for 2024-2025, these files are currently being updated. Once available, these files should replace the 2023-2024 versions that you may have downloaded and saved to your practice computer.

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EMIS V2

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In line with the NHS England Digital Business rules for 2024-2025, these files are currently being updated. Once available, these files should replace the 2023-2024 versions that you may have downloaded and saved to your practice computer.

DOWNLOAD ON DESKTOP ONLY

  1. Download SystmOne System Searches
  2. Save the files: User Guide, Immunocompetent Search File and Severely Immunocompromised Search File

    These files will either be saved directly into your downloads, or will open as new browser tabs (which may require accepting pop-ups). To save the files that open as new tabs, right click on the page and select 'Save as'.

  3. Import the downloaded searches into SystmOne
  4. Run the searches
  5. View & export the patient lists
Download icon

In line with the NHS England Digital Business rules for 2024-2025, these files are currently being updated. Once available, these files should replace the 2023-2024 versions that you may have downloaded and saved to your practice computer.

DOWNLOAD ON DESKTOP ONLY

These search files have been created based on codes from the 2024-2025 NHS Digital shingles vaccination programme business rules, change logs and expanded cluster list. These searches are designed to be used up until 31st August 2025.

References
  1. NHS Digital. Enhanced Services (ES), Vaccination and Immunisation (V&I) and Core Contract (CC) components business rules 2024 - 2025. Shingles. Available at: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/quality-and-outcomes-framework-qof/quality-and-outcome-framework-qof-business-rules/enhanced-services-es-vaccination-and-immunisation-vi-and-core-contract-components-cc-business-rules-2024-2025. Accessed August 2024.

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