Child Vaccination Visit, Administration Fee

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This price is an ADMINISTRATION FEE. It covers the visit, the check that the child is well enough for the dose, giving the injection, writing the record into your card, and twenty minutes of seated observation afterwards. It does not cover the vaccine. Where the vaccine comes from, plainly. A clinic may not stock or sell a vaccine without a retail drug licence under the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules 1945, and no such licence is held here. So until one is granted, the vaccine is BROUGHT BY YOU from a licensed pharmacy, carried in a cold pack, and this fee covers only the administration of it. Once the licence is granted the vaccine will be supplied here at its printed maximum retail price with the vial shown to you before it is drawn and no markup added. Those are the two states this can be in, and this page says which one it is in today. A vaccine you bring is checked before it is used, and refused if it fails. Vaccines live between 2 and 8 degrees C. They must never be frozen: freezing destroys the aluminium adjuvanted vaccines and the damage does not show in the liquid until it is shaken. Many vials carry a vaccine vial monitor, a small square on the label that darkens with cumulative heat exposure, and a monitor past its stage means the vial is finished regardless of the expiry date printed beside it. If a vial you bring has been out of a cold pack, is past its monitor stage, or shows freeze damage, it is refused and this fee is NOT charged. Losing a vaccine is bad. Giving a dead one and marking the child as protected is worse. On the schedule: the doses due are those due at that age under the national immunisation schedule. We do not publish a private schedule of our own, and any listing that does is usually selling the difference. Where a parent has been handed a schedule elsewhere we will read it against the national one and say plainly where it differs and why. No vaccine is named by brand anywhere on this page, because a brand name on a shop page is an advertisement, not information. Vitals Clinic at A.P. Colony is not open. There is no practitioner in post, no premises registration and no appointment book, and this page does not pretend otherwise. What is written here is the specification: the qualification the role requires, the register the person must appear on, and the licence the premises must hold. Booking opens when those exist, and not before.

• ONE administration fee for the visit, even when several doses are due together. Not per vial
• The vaccine itself is NOT in this price. Brought by you today, at printed MRP with no markup once a drug licence is held
• The vial is shown to you before it is drawn, and the batch number and expiry are written into your card
• Cold chain 2 to 8 degrees C, never frozen. A vial that fails the check is refused and this fee is not charged
• 20 minutes of seated observation afterwards. It is a condition of the service, not optional
• Doses as due at that age under the national immunisation schedule. No private schedule, no brand names