To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.

View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Open Petition since 5th April 2024

Add chickenpox vaccine to the routine child immunisation schedule - 180 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 492 - 3 added in the past 24hrs)

Make the chickenpox vaccine part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule, which is delivered by the NHS, and introduce a catch-up programme.

Download petition CSV

Found: Although mild in many, chickenpox can be serious in some children and adults (even those that are not

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Defence

Mar. 19 2024

Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 18 March 2024
Document: Joining the Royal Navy with spinal surgery for Scheuremann's disease (JSP 950) (PDF)

Found: accordance with this policy. 4-N-2 JSP 950 Lft 6 -7-7 (V1. 6 Aug 19) to respond to hepatitis B vaccination

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Mar. 14 2024

Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 29 May 2023
Document: FOI 23/351 - attachment 1 (PDF)

Found: Description 1.Confirm the ty pe of varicella zoster virus infection: Primary infection (e.g. varicella/chickenpox

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Mar. 14 2024

Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 4 December 2023
Document: FOI 23/774 - attachment 2 (PDF)

Found: -vaccinat ion (33, 5%), 11 –30 day s post -vaccination (39, 6%), and >31 days post - vaccination (36

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
UK Health Security Agency

Feb. 19 2024

Source Page: Point prevalence survey on HCAI, AMU and AMS in England
Document: English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance report 2022 to 2023 (PDF)

Found: within the first 28 days of delivery, older household contacts (≥75 years), individuals who develop chickenpox

Written Question
Chickenpox: Vaccination
Wednesday 14th February 2024

Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to take forward the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to introduce a vaccination programme for chickenpox.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is considering the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s recommendation, published on 14 November 2023, on including a chickenpox programme in the routine immunisation schedule for children.

Potential changes to the immunisation programme need to be carefully scoped, taking into account a number of factors including product procurement, operational challenges and feasibility. The Government will decide whether to introduce a chickenpox programme when that careful work has concluded.

Grand Committee
National Immunisation Programme - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) serious illness, but we do not yet have all the vaccines available that could do this.We know that chickenpox - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) I know that they are reviewing the chickenpox vaccine as we speak.As I said, we are gearing up on the - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Defence

Dec. 06 2023

Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 4 December 2023
Document: Latest version of JSP 950 (PDF)

Found: Candidates with a history of BBV infection or failure to respond to hepatitis B vaccination should be

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
UK Health Security Agency

Nov. 14 2023

Source Page: JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine in childhood immunisation programme
Document: JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine in childhood immunisation programme (webpage)

Found: JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine in childhood immunisation programme

Departmental Publication (Research and Statistics)
Department of Health and Social Care

Nov. 14 2023

Source Page: Childhood varicella vaccination programme: JCVI advice, 14 November 2023
Document: Childhood varicella vaccination programme: JCVI advice, 14 November 2023 (webpage)

Found: Childhood varicella vaccination programme: JCVI advice, 14 November 2023