NHS Immunisation, 2011-12

This statistical release summarises information about the uptake of immunisation, primarily childhood immunisations, during the year ended 31 March 2012. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 17 August 2011.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Immunisation coverage rates for the main childhood vaccinations have maintained a high level for some years. For the year ended 31 March 2012:
  - More than 95 per cent of the children who reached their 1st birthday in the year had received their 5 in 1(1) immunisation, and were immunised against meningitis C and pneumococcal (PCV);
  - 97 per cent of the children who reached their 2nd birthday in the year had received their 5 in 1(1) immunisation, and 96 per cent were immunised against meningitis C.
• Coverage rates for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are still recovering from the falls seen in the early 2000s. 87 per cent of the children who reached their 5th birthday in the year ended 31 March 2012 had been immunised with the second dose against MMR.
• Uptake of 3 doses of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in 2010/11 school year 8 girls was 86 per cent, up from 82 per cent in the previous year;
• During autumn/winter 2011-12, 68 per cent of people aged 65 or over were immunised against influenza, up from 66 per cent in 2010-11; and 50 per cent of people aged under 65 in ‘at risk’ groups, up from 48 per cent in 2010-11.

Notes

(1) diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis (whooping cough), haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3598
E-mail: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

August 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)