Immunisation

Immunisation is a way of protecting your child against serious disease. Once children have been immunised their bodies can fight those diseases if they come into contact with them.

If a child is not immunised they will be at risk from catching the disease and will rely on other people immunising their children to avoid becoming infected.

The only time to stop immunising children is when a disease has been eradicated worldwide. When every country had eliminated smallpox in 1979 for example.

For full and detailed information on immunisations , including an immunisation schedule, please use the link (right ) to visit the immunisation.nhs.uk website.

Documents

Babies 633 KB

healthy start 184 KB

Pre-school 743 KB

Teenagers 525 KB

External websites

Immunisation
All about vaccination and childhood immunisation for parents and health professionals.

MMR the facts
This website has been put together to answer any questions you might have about MMR.

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