§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what provisions are being made to improve the national immunisation policy; if there are any sectors of immunisation policy to which he proposes to devote additional resources and publicity; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises the Department on immunisation matters, reviews national policy on a continuing basis.
Last August, the Department asked health authorities to draw up programmes for increased uptake of childhood immunisation, particularly against measles and whooping cough.
79WThe Health Education Council, with special Government funding, is running a publicity campaign to promote immunisation against whooping cough. This will continue throughout the current whooping cough epidemic. The National Rubella Council, which is funded by the Department, is in the second year of a three year campaign to improve uptake of immunisation against rubella among schoolgirls and adult women of childbearing age.