Child immunisation

 
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We attach great  importance to ensuring that children registered with us are fully immunised as the conditions we immunise against all have the potential to be very dangerous.

Please check out the NHS-immunisation information website for detailed information on the diseases and the vaccines used to protect us from them.

 

You will be invited by letter to bring your children along for the following immunisations:

 

When to immunise What is given vaccine
Two months old Diphtheria, tetanus,pertussis,  polio and HIB  One injection (Pediacel)
Pneumococcal (PCV) One injection (Prevenir)
Three months old Diphtheria, tetanus,pertussis,  polio and HIB  One injection (Pediacel)
Meningitis C (MenC) One injection (Meningitec)
Four months old Diphtheria, tetanus,pertussis,  polio and HIB  One injection (Pediacel)
Pneumococcal (PCV) One injection (Prevenir)
Meningitis C (MenC) One injection (Meningitec)
Around 12 months HIB  and Meningitis C One injection (Menitorix)
Around 13 months old Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) One injection (MMR 11)
Pneumococcal (PCV) One injection (Prevenir)
Three years four months to five years old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and  polio One injection (Repevax)
Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) One injection (MMR11)
Thirteen to eighteen years old Tetanus, diphtheria and polio One injection (Revaxis)

Pertussis = whooping cough, HIB = Haemophilus influenza B (cause of epiglottitis and one form of meningitis),

 

If your child missed pneumococcal vaccine:

Children born between 5/9/04 and 3/8/05 (i.e. aged over 13 months of age and under 2 years at the start of the programme) should be offered one dose of PCV.

Children born between 4/8/05 and 3/2/06 (i.e aged 8 months to 13 months of age at the start of the programme) should be offered one dose of PCV at their routine 13 month visit.

Children born between 4/2/06 and 3/7/06 (i.e. aged over two months and under 8 months of age at the start of the programme) should be offered two doses of PCV separated by a period of two months. These children should also be offered a further dose at 13 months of age.

Children age 2-5 will only be immunised if they are at high risk by virtue of having heart disease, chronic lung disease, cochlear implant, chronic liver disease, diabetes or a weakened immune system

 

 

We believe all these immunisations are safe and critical to the future well-being of all our children. If you need any further information do not hesitate to approach your doctor or health visitor.

 

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination

Following advice received from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), HPV immunisation will be offered routinely to all 12- to 13-year-old girls (school year 8) to protect them against their future risk of cervical cancer. The new programme will start from the beginning of the 2008/09 school year and take place in schools.

 

A two-year catch-up campaign will start from the beginning of the 2009/10 school year for all girls aged up to 18 years at 31 August 2009.

 

On 20 July 2008, ministers announced that the HPV vaccination programme would be extended to young women aged 17-18 years (born between 1 September 1990 and 31 August 1991) from September 2008.  We will invite all our patients in this age group to come and receive the vaccine in Westbourne Medical Centre.

 

We have been advised that if patients require the vaccination outside of the guide age (12-18) then they must arrange the vaccination through a private provider.  Similarly, Cervirax is the vaccine that will be offered, should patients require Gardasil they must arrange that through a private provider.

 

For full details of what we have been told please see  -  Introduction of human papillomavirus vaccine into the National immunisation programme

 

Measles,Mumps and Rubella immunisation

 

We feel that, at last, the claim that MMR causes autism has well and truly been laid to rest.   A thorough review of this issue was published in Bandolier in June 2005. See also- Doctors issue plea over MMR jab

 

See also: MMR vaccination catch-up programme

 

Birth to five- 2007 edition

 

 

Page last updated December, 2008