Practice Information
Routine childhood immunisation programme
Each vaccination is given as a single injection into the muscle of the thigh or upper arm.
When to immunise |
Diseases protected against |
Vaccine given |
Two months Old |
Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (whooping Cough), Polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b(Hib) |
DTaP/IPV/Hib and Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine PCV |
Three months old |
Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) Meningitis C (Menigococcal group C) |
DTaP/IPV/Hib and MenC |
Four months old |
Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) Meningitis C |
DTaP/IPV/Hib MenC and PCV |
Around 12 months |
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and Meningitis C |
Hib/MenC |
Around 13 months |
Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German Measles) Pneumococcal infection |
MMR and PCV |
Three years four months to five years old |
Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Polio Measles, Mumps and Rubella |
DTaP/IPV or dTaP/IPV and MMR |
Thirteen to eighteen years |
Tetanus, Diphtheria and Polio |
Td/IPV |
Non-routine immunisations
When to immunise |
Diseases protected against |
Vaccine given |
At birth (to babies who are more likely to come into contact with TB than the general population) |
Tuberculosis |
BCG |
At birth (to babies whose mothers are hepatitis B positive) |
Hepatitis B |
Hep B |