NHS Immunisations at 2nd Birthday.
Long-term trends for MMR immunisations in[HTML_REMOVED]London and England are available, back to 1988/89. It is not possible to easily display the long term trends for all regions since the definitions and boundaries of the other English regions[HTML_REMOVED]has changed a number of times during this period - though data for London has always remained available.
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Centre for Infections (CfI) for information on childhood immunisation uptake at ages 1, 2 and 5 collected through the Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER).
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5 PCTs in 2008/09 experienced data quality issues and thus may not present an accurate reflection of actual uptake.[HTML_REMOVED]13 PCTs in 2008/09[HTML_REMOVED] experienced data quality issues as a result of a recent migration to a new Child Health system or problems with their existing Child Health system, leading to a lack of confidence in data reported.[HTML_REMOVED]1 PCT in 2008/09 submitted partial datasets (Hib/MenC) due to the unavailability of data from certain regions.[HTML_REMOVED]3 PCTs in 2008/09 submitted data based upon quarter data due to problems with the reporting of an annual figure.[HTML_REMOVED]Trusts' data: where there has been missing data, or large movements year on year, these have been queried with the trusts and data withdrawn, estimated or published in agreement with them.[HTML_REMOVED]6 PCTs in 2007/08 were unable to provide reliable annual data due to ongoing problems relating to the implementation of a new child health system, with a further 1 PCT unable to submit MMR figures due to concerns over data quality[HTML_REMOVED](6) 1 PCT was unable to provide annual data due to a major problem with the child health computer system[HTML_REMOVED]7 PCTs in 2006/07 were unable to provide reliable annual data due to ongoing problems relating to the implementation of a new child health system. See .xls file for details of each PCT.[HTML_REMOVED]The Hib/MenC and Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) data has been published for the first time (2008-09) and therefore labelled as experimental.
