title: Childhood immunisation (1): planned changes to the routine schedule.
abstract: With significant changes planned for the childhood immunisation schedule, this two-part series looks at the recommendations and their rationale in order to help community practitioners explain the revisions to parents. This article discusses the introduction of a pneumococcal vaccine and catch-up programme to the schedule. In the next article, other changes to the schedule will be examined along with the process of reassuring parents
authors.affiliation: Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Diggle
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000069443:Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D007223:Infant; D022401:Meningococcal Vaccines; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D022242:Pneumococcal Vaccines; D011159:Population Surveillance; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014611:Vaccination / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000069443:Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine; D022401:Meningococcal Vaccines; D022242:Pneumococcal Vaccines