To ensure that nobody misses out on vital vaccine protection because of practical challenges such as convenient times or locations, a more flexible delivery model, that makes the most of the wide range of healthcare professionals, is needed. We recommend that the Government carries out a consultation on whether to amend the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 to give medical and nursing students, and recently retired staff, a greater role in routine immunisation delivery.

To ensure that nobody misses out on vital vaccine protection because of practical challenges such as convenient times or locations, a more flexible delivery model, that makes the most of the wide range of healthcare professionals, is needed. We recommend that the Government carries out a consultation on whether to amend the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 to give medical and nursing students, and recently retired staff, a greater role in routine immunisation delivery. Type: recommendation | Number: 4 | Paragraph: 19 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Government has previously welcomed all recommendations from Lord O’Shaughnessy’s review of commercial clinical trials in principle and will consider delivery of all the recommendations. As an immediate first step, the Government has made five headline commitments, published alongside the review