Information and Resources For Health Visitors and Healthcare Professionals

New Childhood Vaccine

The government have decided to bring in a new childhood vaccine, the pneumococcal vaccine. America have been administering this vaccine for almost 5 years and finally babies/children in the UK will receive this vaccine.

The following document will provide Health Visiting teams the knowledge base for then to address parent’s questions and concerns.

www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics

The following article may also be of interest:

www.pediatrics.aappublications.org

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