Vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions available, yet coverage across many of the routine childhood programmes across the UK has been steadily declining. In this article, Sharif Ismail and Julie Yates from the UK Health Security Agency discuss some of the long-term challenges for vaccine preventable disease prevention and control in England and review key recent and upcoming changes to the routine schedule for children and young people.
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Current advances and issues in the diagnosis and management of primary immune deficiencies in children
Elizabeth Ralph of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children reports on paediatric immune deficiencies.