Correspondence

Children’s flu immunisation programme 2013 to 2014

Additional information for healthcare professionals on the extension of the flu immunisation programme to healthy children for 2013 to 2014.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England
• Published: 26 July 2013

This publication was withdrawn on 15 July 2014

See the childhood flu immunisation programme from September 2014 to 2015.

Applies to England

Documents

Children's flu immunisation programme 2013 to 2014

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Details

There are 2 elements to the children’s flu immunisation programme this year:

• a routine offer of vaccination to all 2 and 3 year olds (but not 4 years or older) on 1 September 2013
• geographical pilots for 4 to 10 year olds (up to and including pupils in school year 6)

Extending the flu programme to all children will involve considerable planning and work in order to obtain a high level of uptake. For this reason, the programme will be rolled out over a number of seasons and will include pilots, allowing Public Health England and NHS England time to find out the most effective way of implementing it.

Published 26 July 2013