HSE to introduce €100m system for State's vaccine programmes

The HSE said that the new system will record all vaccines offered on a national basis, with priority initially to be given to the primary childhood immunisations programme delivered to all children in their first 13 months of life. File photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

The HSE is to spend up to €100m on the provision of a national immunisation system to record all vaccine programmes offered by the State and to support their delivery.

The health service has gone to tender for the production of a dynamic purchasing system for a period of six years which will see the creation of the National Immunisation Information System.