Vaccination: Children

(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Ashworth Portrait
Jonathan Ashworth
(Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127366, how many local authority areas met the 95 per cent uptake target for childhood immunisation programmes in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 27th February 2018

The number of local authorities (LAs) achieving the 95% coverage at 12 months of age are shown in the table below:

Year

Total number of LAs

Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP/IPV/Hib)

Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV)

Rotavirus

2016-17

149

68

66

9

2015-16

149

80

74

No data published

2014-15

149

81

75

No data published

2013-14

149

91

82

No data published

2012-13

151 primary care trusts (PCT)

97

85

No data published

The number of LAs achieving the 95% coverage at 24 months of age are shown in the table below:

Year

Total number of LAs

DTaP/IPV/Hib primary

Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) first dose

Hib/Meningitis C booster

PCV booster

2016-17

149

107

37

33

34

2015-16

149

107

37

37

33

2014-15

149

107

38

39

44

2013-14

149

122

51

49

50

2012-13

151 PCTs

125

34

55

52

The number of LAs achieving the 95% coverage at five years of age are shown in the table below:

Year

Total number of LAs

DTaP/IPV/Hib primary

DTaP/IPV booster

MMR first dose

MMR first and second dose

Hib/MenC booster

2016-17

149

110

5

101

7

51

2015-16

149

109

5

93

14

46

2014-15

149

112

18

81

11

40

2013-14

149

110

11

73

8

39

2012-13

151 PCTs

117

13

66

4

34

Source: Childhood Vaccination Coverage Statistics, England.

Notes:

2016-17 http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30085

2015-16 http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB21651

2014-15 http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB18472

2013-14 http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB14949

2012-13 http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB11665

The above data is based upon 149 local authorities, as Rutland is included in Leicestershire, City of London in Hackney and the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall.

The data in 2012-13 was recorded by PCT rather than LA.

Rotavirus vaccine was recently introduced in July 2013 and was only included as a National Statistic from 2016-17.

We have defined ‘reached 95%’ as more than or equal to 95.0% (so those achieving 94.9% will not be counted).

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