Hepatitis: Vaccination
(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to introduce a universal vaccination for hepatitis B.
This question was answered on 24th April 2017
The routine childhood vaccination programme in England includes the existing five in one (pentavalent) vaccine which protects against five diseases - diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib).
From autumn 2017 this will be replaced by a six in one (hexavalent) vaccine which also protects against hepatitis B.