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Neonatal BCG: a time for change

Published:2022-08-25 Issue: Volume: Page:edpract-2021-323239
ISSN:1743-0585
Container-title:Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
language:en
Short-container-title:Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed

Author:

Pillay Thillagavathie^ORCID,Toldi Gergely,Hussain Abid,Magwenzi Mercy Murinye,Satodia Prakash,Radcliffe Ruth

Abstract

The BCG vaccination programme in the UK is risk based and has usually been given to eligible babies soon after birth. On advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, NHS England and Improvement recently revised the timing of this vaccination to 28 days after birth or soon thereafter. In this article, we highlight the change in timing of vaccination, the rationale and barriers to BCG uptake that this change may pose.

Publisher

BMJ

Subject

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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