Community pharmacists in England provided 595,467 flu vaccinations to patients under the national NHS Flu Vaccination Service in 2015/16.

The NHS Business Services Authority has published the Advance Flu Report 2015/16, detailing the community pharmacy contractors who signed up to deliver the service, as well as the NHS England area, name of vaccine administered, manufacturer, quantity, and drug and fee costs.

The average number of vaccinations carried out by each participating pharmacy was 83, although two contractors greatly exceeded this by completing over 1,000 vaccinations each.

The data in the PDF below only contains flu vaccinations administered as part of the 2015/16 service which have been entered into the Sonar Informatics or PharmOutcomes systems. Some contractors were not able to use or decided not to use either of these electronic systems to record administration of vaccines. The total number of vaccinations administered is therefore higher than the total in the below PDF document. Click on ‘Flu vaccinations administered by community pharmacists in 2015/16’ to obtain details of the total number of flu vaccinations administered during the 2015/16 service.

Although the service commenced on 16th September 2015 the announcement that contractors could start providing the service was not made until early in the evening on 16th September therefore the data on the number of flu vaccinations administered starts from 17th September.

Flu vaccination data 2015/16 (PDF)

This data from PharmOutcomes and Sonar Informatics shows the eligibility groups of patients who have been vaccinated (Sonar updated to 31st January 2016, PharmOutcomes updated to 29th February 2016) for the 2015/16 service. Some contractors were not able to use or decided not to use either of these electronic systems to record administration of vaccines. Therefore this data does not cover all patients vaccinated during the 2015/16 service.

The number of community pharmacies who provided the national NHS Flu Vaccination Service in 2015/16 was 7,195 (60.9% of all community pharmacies in England).

Below is a heat map showing the percentage of community pharmacies who provided the national NHS Flu Vaccination Service in 2015/16 by NHS England area:

The table below shows the number and percentage of community pharmacies who provided the national NHS Flu Vaccination Service in 2015/16 by NHS England area .