Health: Vaccines Debate

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Baroness Hayman

Main Page: Baroness Hayman (Crossbench - Life peer)
Tuesday 29th January 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl of Courtown Portrait The Earl of Courtown
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My Lords, there are a number of areas where there is good contact between patients and healthcare professionals, particularly in early years with babies. A record is now kept of immunisation targets. When they have to be given, patients are given reminders by their doctors, and these are chased up. Later in life, students attending university are made aware through Universities UK and UCAS of what vaccinations are available and what they should have. The noble Baroness makes a very good point.

Baroness Hayman Portrait Baroness Hayman (CB)
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My Lords, does the Minister agree that pernicious and damaging misinformation about vaccinations not only threatens children’s lives in Europe and America, where there are good health services, but is even more damaging to children in the developing world, where there are not those services to deal with the consequences of low levels of vaccination and where childhood immunisation has been perhaps the greatest weapon in reducing childhood mortality?