Immunisations for babies, children and teenagers

We encourage all children and young people to complete a full course of immunisation. The first immunisations start when your baby is two months old. Normally you will receive an appointment by post to see one of our practice nurses.

Once children start school the school nursing service in State schools organises further immunisations.

Serious diseases that could be fatal or disabling in various ways have disappeared from our country and to a large extent this is due to the immunisation programme.

Many people alive now will not have had any experience of these diseases, and it is easy to forget what life used to be like when children were dying of diphtheria or were paralysed by polio.

The normal schedule in the UK is as follows

Click on the different immunisations below to find out more about the diseases.

**Schedule of children's recommended immunisations**
When is the immunisation due?	Which immunisations?	How is it given?
At two months	Polio Hib Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Pneumococcal infection	Two injections
At three months	Polio Hib Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Meningitis C	Two injections
At four months	Polio Hib Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Pneumococcal infection Meningitis C	Three injections
Around 12 months	Hib and Meningitis C	One injection
Around 13 months	Measles Mumps Rubella Pneumococcal infection	Two injections including MMR Concerned about MMR safety? visit www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk
3 years and four months to 5 years (usually before the child starts school)	Measles Mumps Rubella Diphtheria Tetanus Polio Whooping cough	Two injections including MMR
School leavers 13 to 18 years	Diphtheria Tetanus Polio	One injection
For further information link to NHS immunisation website
top of page

home	staff	practice information	facts and figures	search
self help	contacts	services and clinics	keeping healthy	site map

Services & Clinics

Immunisations

Services & Clinics Contents

Immunisations for children and young people

The normal schedule in the UK is as follows

See also