HC Deb 26 January 1993 vol 217 c694W
Mrs. Bridget Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what provisions are made for regional health authorities that have terminated the universal BCG immunisation programme of children to inform parents of their rights to have their children vaccinated against tuberculosis.

Mr. Sackville

Local arrangements for childhood immunisations, and for providing information on their availability, are the responsibility of individual health authorities.

Mrs. Bridget Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many regional health authorities have informed her Department that they have terminated the blanket immunisation programme for children against tuberculosis due to lack of resources; and if she will name those regional health authorities which no longer offer the BCG vaccination to children on a universal basis.

Mr. Sackville

No regional health authority has terminated the BCG immunisation for school children although an anonymised study by the public health laboratory service published in the "British Medical Journal" on 29 August 1992, reported that a small number of district health authorities are no longer routinely immunising children.

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