Practices have been restricted to ordering just five doses a week of Repevax vaccine for delivering preschool whooping cough booster jabs, according to latest advice from public health chiefs.

08 May 2014

21 March 2014

GPs will be tasked with ensuring all young adults planning to go to university are offered a booster dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine as part of a limited catch-up campaign from next year.

13 May 2013

GPs could be faced with ‘mopping up’ after a programme of meningitis C booster vaccination is rolled out in schools, say DH immunisation experts.

08 May 2012

Department of Health advisers have recommended that a meningitis C vaccine dose should be moved from the infant schedule and replaced with a booster in teenagers.

31 January 2012

A leading GP immunisation adviser to the Government has called for a new adolescent booster for meningitis C vaccination after new research found a steep decline in immunity through childhood among those receiving the vaccine.

07 November 2011

The UK is switching to a different pertussis vaccine for pregnant women following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.

02 July 2024

Vaccine uptake in babies in the UK is continuing to fall for most immunisations, the latest public health figures show.

01 July 2024

NHS England has told GP practices to plan for an ‘early October’ start to the Covid-19 autumn vaccination programme, in a letter published yesterday.

31 May 2024

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a much higher risk of being hospitalised and dying from Covid despite being more likely to be vaccinated, UK research suggests.

21 May 2024