Childhood Immunisations

Latest Childhood Immunisation Uptake rates by NHS Board and Scotland: up to 31st March 2010

The latest childhood immunisation uptake rates by 12 months, 24 months, 5 years and 6 years, by NHS board and Scotland can be viewed by clicking on the links below:

Latest Quarterly Uptake Rates 1st January to 31st March 2010 [123 KB)

Financial Year ending 31st March 2010 [ 122 KB]

Calendar Year ending 31st December 2009 [123 KB]

Data are also available for immunisation uptake rates by NHS Board from previous quarters and years. 

Or see the Trends in Immunisation uptake page.

Childhood immunisation uptake rates by Community Health Partnership (CHP) are also available.

Please note: NHS Shetland has identified call/recall and data recording issues, which are affecting some of their reported uptake rates. These issues are currently being reviewed by NHS Shetland.

The key points for quarter ending 31 March 2010, at Scotland level, are:

Uptake rates by 12 months of age (born 1 January to 31 March 2009)

• Uptake rates by 12 months of age for primary courses of immunisation against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, MenC and PCV remain above 95%.

Uptake rates by 24 months of age (born 1 January to 31 March 2008)

• Uptake rates by 24 months of age for primary courses of immunisation against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, MenC and PCV remain high and stable at around 96% to 98%.
  
• The combined Hib/MenC booster (normally given at around 12 months of age) was introduced in September 2006. This required the inclusion of an additional immunisation appointment in the childhood schedule. Uptake of this vaccine by 24 months is 93.9% (the previous quarterly figure was 94.2%).
  
• A booster dose of PCV was also introduced in September 2006 (normally given at the same appointment as the first dose of MMR vaccine at around 13 months of age). Uptake for this vaccine by 24 months of age is 94.3% (the previous quarterly figure was 94.9%).
  
• Uptake of one dose of MMR vaccine (MMR1) by 24 months is 93.5% (down by 0.7 percentage points on the previous quarterly figure of 94.2%). MMR1 uptake rates by 24 months have continued to be above 90% since autumn 2005.

Uptake rates by 5 years of age (born 1 January to 31 March 2005)

• Uptake of one dose of MMR vaccine (MMR1) by 5 years is 96.2% (down by 0.4 percentage points on the previous quarterly figure of 96.6%).  Uptake rates have remained above the 95% target since September 2008.  By 24 months the reported uptake for this cohort of children was 92.3% showing that a significant number of children are immunised beyond the standard age.
  
• Uptake of the second dose of MMR vaccine (MMR2) by 5 years old is 89.8%. This is a decrease of 1.8 percentage points on the previous quarter when the rate was 91.6%. Other pre-school booster vaccines experienced a similar fall (from 93.6% to 91.9%).

Although there has been a slight decrease in the uptake rates for boosters at 5 years old, and a smaller decrease across Scotland for all the primary course vaccinations compared with figures for the immediately preceding quarter, they remain in line with previous quarterly figures over the past year. Overall the broad picture is that the Scottish immunisation rates remain high.

This release also provides an update to annual immunisation uptake rates to show data for the year ending 31 March 2010.
 

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