Children for whom the local authority is responsible who received 3 doses of DTaP IPV Hib HepB vaccine (Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis/whooping cough, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b and hepatitis B) at any time by their first birthday as a percentage of all children whose first birthday falls within the time period.
Rationale
The combined DTaP IPV Hib HepB is the first in a course of vaccines offered to babies to protect them against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b (an important cause of childhood meningitis and pneumonia), polio (IPV is inactivated polio vaccine) and from 2019, Hepatitis B.
Vaccination coverage is the best indicator of the level of protection a population will have against vaccine preventable communicable diseases. Coverage is closely correlated with levels of disease. Monitoring coverage identifies possible drops in immunity before levels of disease rise.
The combined DTaP IPV Hib HepB is the first in a course of vaccines offered to babies to protect them against these six diseases. The vaccine is offered when babies are two, three and four months old. Previous evidence shows that highlighting vaccination programmes encourages improvements in uptake levels .May also have relevance for NICE guidance PH21: Reducing differences in the uptake of immunisations (The guidance aims to increase immunisation uptake among those aged under 19 years from groups where uptake is low).
Definition of numerator
Total number of children whose first birthday falls within the time period who received 3 doses of DTaP IPV Hib HepB at any time before their first birthday.
Data for 2013 to 2014 are available at source at LA level.
Data prior to 2013 to 2014 were collected at PCT level and converted to LA level using the criteria as described in the notes section below. From 2019/20, for the 12 month cohort, coverage reported is for the DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB (6 in 1) vaccination, which replaced the DTaP/IPV/Hib (5 in 1) vaccination.
Definition of denominator
Total number of children whose first birthday falls within the time period.Data from 2013 to 2014 are available at source at LA level. Data prior to 2013 to 2014 were collected at PCT level and converted to LA level using the criteria as described in the notes section below.
Caveats
Full GP postcodes are used to aggregate data to ICB. The GP-level coverage data is collected by NHS Digital Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) and published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) COVER team. ICB data is experimental data and should be treated with caution. It is not an official statistic.