This single page reminder based on Immunisation against infectious disease: the Green Book helps health professionals vaccinate people correctly to protect them and their families from disease.
Open access. Measles (rubeola) is a highly contagious disease with significant morbidity/mortality. Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) is a live-attenuated vaccine used in the United States (US) since the early 1970s to prevent measles infection. This retrospective longitudinal cohort study examined childhood MMR vaccination effectiveness (VE) on preventing diagnosed measles cases.
Record numbers of people in England will be offered a flu vaccine this winter. For the first time, all primary school children will be offered the nasal spray
Child health policy in the UK includes vaccination from eight weeks to 13 years for diseases including diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and meningitis.
Public Health England (PHE) has released new resources for the upcoming flu season.
The new resources support employers to promote the influenza vaccination to frontline healthcare staff in their local campaigns.
The frontline healthcare staff flu vaccination campaign is part of NHS England's /PHE winter campaign.