Flu Vaccine Stock

To help facilitate putting those that have but don’t want in contact with those that want but don’t have.

For those that have overstock they want to redistribute please provide the following information:

• What vaccine?
• How many?
• Contact name
• Contact details (phone, email)

For those needing more vaccine please provide the following information:

• What vaccine?
• How many?
• Contact name
• Contact details (phone, email)

Please email alison.freemantle@cpsc.org.uk with any overstocks or any vaccine needed information

Movement of Vaccine Stock between Providers

Vaccine purchased by one provider cannot normally be distributed to another provider without a legal basis for doing so – usually this is limited to providers that have a wholesale dealer’s licence. 

The exemption that was put into place in 2020 in accordance with regulation19 (4A) of the Human Medicines Act 2012 has been extended by Statutory Instrument No. 350 – the Human Medicines (Coronavirus and Influenza) (Amendment) Regulations.  The new exemption started on 1 April 2022 and expires on 1 April 2024.  

Under the exemption, vaccine stock may be supplied by community pharmacy to other providers in the area, as long as:

• it is from excess stock that the supplying community pharmacy ordered, which resulted from forecasting demand that did not materialise
• it was not a result of deliberate over ordering
• the vaccine supplied will not be used for onward supply to another pharmacy.