GP practices in some areas are being warned they may have inadvertently used the wrong meningitis C vaccine as part of the revised infant vaccination schedule, Pulse has learned.

16 April 2014

GPs in England are being tasked with vaccinating newborn babies who may be at high risk of contracting hepatitis B against the disease, under a new programme starting this year.

08 April 2014

06 November 2013

Pertussis infection is a frequent cause of persistent cough in patients presenting in primary care, raising the question whether NHS workers should be immunised against infection, say researchers.

14 August 2013

01 August 2013

Public health experts are looking at whether booster vaccinations against whooping cough are needed for adolescents and other groups, amid warnings that recent declines in pertussis cases are unlikely to be sustained over the summer.

29 July 2013

GPs in England and Wales begin vaccinating infants against rotavirus from today, as another of the changes to this year’s routine immunisation schedule gets underway.

01 July 2013

GP practices will start offering the new intranasal influenza vaccine to all two-year-old children from this September, after the Department of Health announced the new programme will start being rolled out a year early.

30 April 2013

GPs are to continue to vaccinate pregnant women against whooping cough ‘until further notice’, after recent figures showed the programme had high uptake rates and cases of the illness were falling.

10 April 2013

Exclusive: The GPC has warned that any additions to the ‘crowded’ immunisation schedule need to be very carefully introduced to maximise uptake and minimise the workload on GP practices.

04 February 2013