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Routine Childhood Immunisation Schedule September2018
Routine Childhood Immunisation Schedule September2018
When Diseases protected against Vaccine given and trade name Usual site
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis
(whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Infanrix hexa Thigh
influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B
Eight weeks old Meningococcal group B (MenB) MenB Bexsero Left thigh
Rotavirus gastroenteritis Rotavirus Rotarix By mouth
Pneumococcal (13 serotypes) PCV Prevenar 13 Thigh
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio,
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Infanrix hexa Thigh
Twelve weeks old Hib and hepatitis B
Rotavirus Rotavirus Rotarix By mouth
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio,
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Infanrix hexa Thigh
Hib and hepatitis B
Sixteen weeks old
MenB MenB Bexsero Left thigh
Pneumococcal (13 serotypes) PCV Prevenar 13 Thigh
Hib and MenC Hib/MenC Menitorix Upper arm/thigh
One year old Pneumococcal PCV booster Prevenar 13 Upper arm/thigh
(on or after the Measles, mumps and rubella
child’s first birthday) MMR MMR VaxPRO2 or Priorix Upper arm/thigh
(German measles)
MenB MenB booster Bexsero Left thigh
Eligible paediatric Live attenuated influenza
Influenza (each year from September) Fluenz Tetra2, 3 Both nostrils
age group1 vaccine LAIV2, 3
Three years four Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio DTaP/IPV Infanrix IPV or Repevax Upper arm
months old or soon MMR (check first dose
after Measles, mumps and rubella MMR VaxPRO2 or Priorix Upper arm
given)
Cervical cancer caused by human
Girls aged 12 to papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 HPV (two doses 6-24
Gardasil Upper arm
13 years (and genital warts caused by types months apart)
6 and 11)
Td/IPV (check MMR
Tetanus, diphtheria and polio Revaxis Upper arm
Fourteen years old status)
(school year 9) Meningococcal groups A, C, W and
MenACWY Nimenrix or Menveo Upper arm
Y disease
1. See Green book chapter 19 or visit www.gov.uk/government/publications/influenza-the-green-book-chapter-19 or www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/child-flu-vaccine/
2. Contains porcine gelatine.
3. If LAIV (live attenuated influenza vaccine) is contraindicated and the child is in a clinical risk group, use inactivated flu vaccine.
All vaccines for use in the childhood programme are available free of charge from www.immform.dh.gov.uk except for monovalent Hepatitis B vaccine