GPs to begin infant Men B vaccinations from September

22 June 2015

Guidance on vaccination and immunisation programmes 2015/16

This document from NHS Employers provides detailed guidance for practices providing vaccination programmes commissioned by NHS England, including the new booster programmes for HPV and Meningitis C.

14 May 2015

Respiratory clinic – girl with known cystic fibrosis

13 May 2015

GPs told to delay ‘freshers’ meningitis jab until combined vaccine available

01 April 2015

Freshers urged to get their Men C jab from GPs

Public Health England is urging freshers students to get their Men C booster jab from their GP at least two weeks before starting university.

19 August 2014

GP leaders call for reinvestment of funding from unfilled training slots

GP leaders are calling on health chiefs to reinvest the money they have failed to use to fill training places to cover ‘rapidly emerging’ workforce gaps in general practice.

25 July 2014

No link between pertussis vaccine and stillbirth, say researchers

Vaccination against whooping cough poses little danger to pregnant women or their unborn children, a study has found.

11 July 2014

Analysis: ‘GPs must remain on their guard about whooping cough’

Dr Kay Wang describes how her study demonstrated the burden of whooping cough remains significant and what GPs need to know.

25 June 2014

Whooping cough still prevalent in school-age children, even after vaccination

GPs should consider pertussis as a cause of persistent cough even in children who have been immunised, suggests a study that has found a fifth of school-age children presenting to the GP with persistent cough may be infected.

25 June 2014

GPs urged to keep up whooping cough jabs campaign in pregnant women

Public health chiefs in England have urged GPs to keep up efforts to make sure pregnant women have the pertussis vaccination, despite new figures showing the number of cases of whooping cough in babies has dropped by nearly 80% since the campaign was introduced.

02 May 2014