Manage vaccinations in schools (Mavis)

Mavis (Manage vaccinations in schools) is an end-to-end digital service that makes it easier for School Age Immunisation Service (SAIS) teams to manage vaccination programmes.

Mavis addresses issues with system fragmentation and manual data entry, while improving vaccine uptake and data quality.

SAIS teams are responsible for giving life-saving vaccinations to millions of school age children every year.

Mavis allows them to vaccinate more children more easily by: 

• matching and consolidating child records from multiple sources
• making it easier to identify which children are eligible for routine vaccinations, and which ones need catch-ups
• simplifying the process of requesting consent from parents
• allowing SAIS teams to record and report vaccinations more efficiently

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• SAIS teams: Clinicians responsible for vaccinating children in school and community settings, admin workers supporting programme delivery, reporting teams
• Parents: Parents, guardians or anyone with parental responsibility for a school age child
• Children and young people: The school age patients receiving their routine vaccinations
• Schools: Teachers and staff in schools who help SAIS teams to organise school vaccination sessions 
• Child Health Information Service (CHIS) teams: Teams that provide details of eligible children and keep records of the vaccinations those children have had
• Commissioners: Local commissioners who are responsible for procuring SAIS services and monitoring performance and uptake levels 

Using Mavis provides the following benefits for SAIS teams, parents and schools.

Mavis is the only digital service that combines end-to-end programme management with automated reporting direct to the NHSE Immunisation FHIR API, and fully automated consent communications. This eliminates manual GP reporting and time-intensive chasing through schools. Specifically:

• enabling SAIS teams to efficiently upload and manage entire cohort lists with automated NHS number validation through the Patient Demographic System (PDS), achieving verified NHS number coverage above 98%
• supporting all school age vaccinations: HPV, MenACWY, Td/IPV, flu and MMR, and has now been extended to support MMRV delivery
• simplifying the consent process through fully automated consent request sending and configurable automated reminder sequences for non-responders
• allowing clinical staff to intelligently triage health questionnaire responses and seamlessly record administered vaccines
• providing SAIS teams with reporting dashboards that automate and simplify the reporting process to NHS England commissioning teams

The Mavis service is centrally funded to continue improving and expanding. This investment helps address key pain points for SAIS teams. For example, it will soon address better communication and data exchange between SAIS teams and schools.

Access this service at Manage vaccinations in schools (Mavis).

As a SAIS team, you need to go through an onboarding process. Please contact [email protected] to discuss onboarding to Mavis. 

Mavis links together each stage of a school age vaccination programme. SAIS teams import children’s details, collect digital consent from parents, triage any clinical issues, and record vaccinations during sessions. The service then automatically shares accurate vaccination data with NHS England and GPs.

The following sections show how the service works in practice, starting with the end‑to‑end SAIS team workflow, followed by the parent consent and communication journey.

Planning and running a school vaccination programme

A SAIS team uses Mavis to upload a list of eligible pupils, schedule school sessions and send consent requests to parents. Before the session, the team reviews responses and triages any clinical issues. On the day, vaccinations are recorded in Mavis and shared automatically with national systems.

Recording vaccinations in community clinics

If children miss their school session or need catch‑up doses, SAIS teams use Mavis to manage community clinic appointments. Consent and vaccination details are recorded at the clinic and included in the same reporting and data flows as school‑based vaccinations.

Supporting national reporting

A SAIS provider uses Mavis to submit vaccination records as part of national reporting. Data is validated, processed and shared with NHS England through national systems, replacing manual or bulk upload processes.

Mavis is nationally recommended for SAIS teams delivering routine school age vaccinations. It supports the end‑to‑end process for all major SAIS programmes, including HPV, MenACWY, Td/IPV, flu, MMR and MMRV.

Use of Mavis at the point of care is being rolled out across SAIS providers, with onboarding supported by NHS England’s Vaccinations Digital Services programme.

Mavis will continue to evolve as it scales nationally, focusing on supporting more SAIS teams and strengthening national reporting and data flows.

Over the next few quarters, planned outcomes include:

Mavis is in beta and in active use across multiple SAIS organisations. It is continually improved through successive releases supporting new vaccines, workflows and national reporting capabilities.

Mavis operates as a bronze service, with service operation hours from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).