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The study said sending reminder text messages can increase especially the rate and completion of measles and yellow fever immunisations, which till date have been very low from previous surveys.

Interviewees were asked about the involvement of practice staff (doctors, nurses and administration) with immunisations. We found that high-performing practices have a solid collaborative approach towards the immunisation process.

Interviewees were told the purpose of the study, ie to understand what approaches helped attain high rates of on-time childhood immunisations. The interview topics were provided to participants before interviews, along with a pre-visit questionnaire to collect data on practice demographics.

In this study we assessed immunisation coverage of the South African Expanded Programme of Immunisations (EPI-SA) during the first 2 years of life and the timeliness of immunisations in the first year of life.

THE number of children who were up to date with their routine immunisations by the age of four has decreased in Wales, new figures reveal.

Of the 392 children who had an RTHB present, 5.4% had incomplete immunisations. Of caregivers of the 90 children who did not have an RTHB present, 13.3% reported that immunisation status was incomplete or uncertain.

This evaluation will focus on the first set of childhood immunisations (the primary course), which includes diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis and haemophilus influenzae type b (given at two, three and four months), pneumococcal PCV (given at two and four months) and meningitis C (given at three and four months) (NHS Information Centre, 2010).

PARENTS don't know enough about immunisations for their kids, a survey has found.

Immunisation Awareness Week starts on Monday and aims to promote childhood immunisation and provide information to parents to improve the uptake of immunisations.

Scheduled childhood immunisations protect children and communities against serious, life-threatening infectious diseases.

Giving babies 2ml of a 24% oral sucrose solution two minutes before routine immunisations decreases maximum immunisation pain and shortens the time before they return to a near normal state, a study has found.

The schedule of free immunisations offered to all babies and children in New Zealand is updated every three years to include new and improved vaccines that protect against 11 preventable diseases.