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

UK public health officials have issued an update about the new Covid variant that appears to be spreading internationally.

27 June 2025

Well over half of patients eligible for a Spring Covid vaccination have yet to come forward with just under six weeks left of the campaign.

08 May 2025

The Government has announced a raft of ‘significant’ changes to the childhood vaccination schedule, including a new routine appointment at 18 months.

01 May 2025

Covid vaccinations may not be enough to protect immunocompromised people from infection even when they have generated antibodies, researchers have found.

21 February 2025