Shropshire Council supports new campaign to encourage take up of childhood immunisation programme

News - 12 March 2024

Shropshire Council’s public health team lead officers are urging parents and carers to ensure their child’s vaccinations are up to date.
If we're not vaccinated we're not protected

The call out is part of the national childhood immunisation campaign launched on Monday 4 March 2024 by NHS England and UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency). The campaign aims to encourage parents, whose children (0-5 years old) have missed or may miss a vaccine, to get vaccinated, and has been launched after seeing a drop in vaccinations for measles and whooping cough.

As a result childhood infections like measles and whooping cough have been rising, with outbreaks across the country.

Such infections can have a huge impact on your child’s life. They can miss out on school due to time spent unwell, be hospitalised, and even experience lifelong complications, disability and in some cases tragically can cause death.

Childhood vaccinations give children the best protection and prevent over 5,000 deaths and over 100,000 hospital admissions each year in England. ​

It’s important that vaccines are given on time for the best protection. To have full protection, children sometimes need to have booster vaccines. You should check their red book. If your child missed a vaccine, contact your GP to catch up.​​

For the full childhood immunisation timetable and to see how to get them, visit the NHS website

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