Meningitis: Vaccination
(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the meningitis-B vaccine uptake amongst the student population.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 1st February 2022
As Meningococcal B disease is rare after the first five years of life, students are not routinely offered this vaccination. Protection against other strains which cause meningitis and septicaemia is provided through the national Men-ACWY programme delivered at ages 13 to 15 years old or in catch-up programmes at ages 19 to 25 years old.