Measles, Mumps and Rubella
This week Wandsworth NHS is launching campaign across Wandsworth to encourage parents of babies and toddlers to take up the Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR) vaccination.
Parents are being urged to make sure their children have received the two doses of MMR vaccine. The number of measles cases this year has risen right across the country. To date there have been 31 confirmed cases of measles in Wandsworth this year, compared to just 11 cases in the whole of 2007.
The campaign includes advertising in parenting magazines Flapjack, Angels & Urchins and Parents News, news stories and features in local newspapers, parenting magazines and on online parenting websites such as Netmums. Packs of posters and flyers have also gone out to all GP practices and clinics across the borough as well as libraries, leisure centres, nurseries, schools and baby and toddler groups. The campaign also includes a roadshow of events at ?baby rhyme times? at local libraries led by the immunisation nurses.
If you want to find out more about the MMR or other childhood immunisations then there is a dedicated immunisation team locally. They have set up an immunisation hotline for Wandsworth on 020 8254 8393. For more information about any childhood jabs visit www.immunisation.nhs.uk
For more information on the campaign or to order more materials please call Maria Vidal on 020 8812 7609 or email maria.vidal@wpct.nhs.uk
Parents are being urged to make sure their children have received the two doses of MMR vaccine. The number of measles cases this year has risen right across the country. To date there have been 31 confirmed cases of measles in Wandsworth this year, compared to just 11 cases in the whole of 2007.
The campaign includes advertising in parenting magazines Flapjack, Angels & Urchins and Parents News, news stories and features in local newspapers, parenting magazines and on online parenting websites such as Netmums. Packs of posters and flyers have also gone out to all GP practices and clinics across the borough as well as libraries, leisure centres, nurseries, schools and baby and toddler groups. The campaign also includes a roadshow of events at ?baby rhyme times? at local libraries led by the immunisation nurses.
If you want to find out more about the MMR or other childhood immunisations then there is a dedicated immunisation team locally. They have set up an immunisation hotline for Wandsworth on 020 8254 8393. For more information about any childhood jabs visit www.immunisation.nhs.uk
For more information on the campaign or to order more materials please call Maria Vidal on 020 8812 7609 or email maria.vidal@wpct.nhs.uk
Labels: health
posted by Stuart King at
07:26
<< Home