MMR Vaccine
(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the decline in MMR vaccine uptake.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
On 1 February 2022 a new national marketing campaign was launched with the aim of increasing awareness and driving uptake of both doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in children under the age of five years.
In addition, NHS England and NHS Improvement are implementing an MMR campaign from March 2022 to increase coverage of the MMR vaccine in the routine childhood programme. This will include a central call and recall for children aged 1-6 years who have been identified to not be up to date for their age.