Let’s get vaccinated

Babies up to 3 years

Why immunise?

The development of effective vaccines has led to a huge decrease in childhood deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) states: ‘The 2 public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s health are clean water and vaccines.’

Benefits for you

As children develop they’re exposed to many risks, one of these risks being infections. Most of these will cause mild illnesses. However, despite great medical advances, infection can still cause severe illness, disability and, at times, death.

Before vaccines were available, many children in the UK died from diseases such as whooping cough, measles and polio. Despite successful immunisation programmes, the diseases that vaccines protect against do still exist.

The benefit of immunisation is that your child has the best possible protection against dangerous diseases. This can give you peace of mind.

Where to get immunised

You can view the map on where vaccination clinics are here

To optimise protection against vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs), for both individuals and for community level protection, the UK vaccination schedule is kept under constant review.

From the 1^st July, the Routine Childhood Immunisation Schedule is changing. The schedule continues to protect against the same diseases, but with some different timings.  Going forward, vaccinations offered to your child be depend on when they were born

These changes are shown below:

Further information can be found in the leaflet Protect your child from serious diseases