Protecting your children through vaccination
Vaccines save lives. This blog looks at the free NHS vaccination programme and why it's so important to get vaccinated and catch up on missed vaccines.
Vanessa Saliba
Vanessa is a Consultant Epidemiologist for Immunisations at Public Health England.
How do I protect my child from measles?
More than one in ten eligible children under the age of five in England haven’t had the MMR vaccine or are only partially vaccinated. This blog looks at why getting fully vaccinated against MMR is so important.
Ten years on since the start of the HPV vaccine programme – what impact is it having?
Measles has been eliminated in the UK – so why do we still see cases and outbreaks?
Last year the World Health Organization declared that the UK eliminated measles. This is a huge achievement that is testament to the hard work by NHS health professionals over many years to ensure that children and adults are fully protected …