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Percentage vaccination coverage for eligible children - BCG (12 months) (19729) Metric type

URI
http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/19729
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This is the completed immunisations rate at 12 months of eligible children for whom the local authority is responsible who reached their first birthday in this quarter, would have been scheduled to receive a BCG vaccination at 28 days. BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine) protects against tuberculosis (TB). TB is a serious infection that affects the lungs and sometimes other parts of the body, such as the bones, joints and kidneys. It can also cause meningitis.

Children born in areas where the TB incidence is greater than or equal to 40 per 100,000 or who are born to parents or grandparents from TB endemic areas are eligible for a BCG vaccination.

In England, local teams and Child Health Record Departments provided data for upper tier local authorities (LAs) and the associated general practices (GP). All English data were collected through NHS Digital’s Strategic Data Collection Service. There are some expections where for some local authorities GP data only is included (excludes unregistered population), which can lead to under-estimates of coverage. GP level data was censored when individual values were less than 5.

City of London is included in Hackney data.
Modified
05 Apr 2023
Data last updated
22 Dec 2023
Short label
% vaccination coverage - BCG (12 months)
Status
Live
Output precision
1
Polarity
a high value is good
Measure
Per cent at 12m
Dataset
Completed primary immunisations - Quarterly
Collection
Cover of vaccination evaluated rapidly (COVER) programme
Source
UK Health Security Agency
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