Vaccination: Children
(asked on 11th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many local authority areas met the WHO recommended 95 per cent uptake target for childhood immunisation programmes in 2016-17.
The information requested is shown in the following tables.
Local authorities with 95% coverage at 12 months of age
Immunisation | Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Polio Vaccine, Hib (DTaP/IPV/Hib) | Pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) | Rotavirus |
Number of local authorities* | 68 | 66 | 9 |
Local authorities with 95% coverage at 24 months of age
Immunisation | DTaP/IPV/Hib primary | Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) first dose | Haemophilus influenzae type b and meningitis C (Hib/MenC) booster | PCV booster |
Number of local authorities* | 107 | 37 | 33 | 34 |
Local authorities with 95% coverage at five years of age
Immunisation | DTaP/IPV/Hib primary | DTaP/IPV booster | MMR first dose | MMR first and second dose | Hib/MenC booster |
Number of local authorities* | 110 | 5 | 101 | 7 | 51 |
Note:
*The data are based on 149 local authorities in England. Rutland is included in Leicestershire, City of London in Hackney and the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall.
Reached 95% is defined as more than or equal to 95.0% (those achieving 94.9% are not counted).
Further information is available in the Childhood Vaccination Coverage Statistics, England, 2016-17 at the following link: