Number of doses per vial

Syringe labels have been introduced to help differentiate between vaccines. • The syringe Label for the Novavax Vaccine is below:

Only draw up one vial at a time, each vaccine from that vial should go into one container with the original vial for vaccine delivery.

It is recommended that a suitable covering is used when storing the drawn-up syringes. This is to ensure that used syringes will not be put back with the unused syringes.

During the preparation of the vaccine standard local IPC policies should be followed.

Incorrect volume of vaccine may be detected by identifying you have drawn up less or more than 10 doses from a vial. Should this occur, quarantine, and discard all doses from that vial. If it is unclear why the error has occurred contact IMAC for clinical guidance. This error must be documented as waste in CIR and reported as an incident in the local organisation’s quality and safety reporting system.