Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

If I haven't yet told NHS GP that DS had MMR jab privately, does that mean he is not included in Government statistics of immunisation levels?

4 replies

HowManyUserNamesIsTooMany · 28/03/2019 20:32

I haven't yet got round to notifying my NHS GP that I had my DS's pre-school boosters and MMR jabs done privately.

I keep reading all these statistics about levels of immunisation in the country. For the purposes of those statistics, would my DS be categorised as un-vaccinated? I sort of assumed the private GP tells some central health body if he has given a child a routine vaccine that is recommended as a matter of course for all children. But maybe not?

OP posts:
Holidayshopping · 28/03/2019 20:37

Was it the same mmr vaccines that the NHS use?

HowManyUserNamesIsTooMany · 28/03/2019 21:32

I believe so, yes.
Well, the vaccine may not have been made by the same pharma company (as the one used by the NHS) but I have no reason to believe the actual substance of the vaccine was different.

OP posts:
lljkk · 28/03/2019 21:43

If privately vaccinated in UK, OP's child's jab would still have to be licensed here, so would it be part of some statistics gathering that way?

About 700,000 children born each year (in UK).
So it would take 7000 children vaccinated privately to change the official statistics by 1% (for that age group).
Do you reckon that 1% of kids are vaccinated privately?

Chart source: NHS digital (fancy dashboard!)

OP: if your child got MMR after 24 m they also wouldn't count in the stats for this pic.

If I haven't yet told NHS GP that DS had MMR jab privately, does that mean he is not included in Government statistics of immunisation levels?

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

HowManyUserNamesIsTooMany · 28/03/2019 22:05

@lljkk that's interesting, thank you. I doubt 1% of kids are vaccinated privately. So whether or not those kids are assumed to be un-vaccinated wouldn't make any material difference.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page