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Changes to the childhood immunisation schedule - Information for health professionals

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Background

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is an expert scientific advisory committee, which advises the UK government on vaccination and immunisation matters. 

A statement has been published by the JCVI setting out the main changes to the childhood immunisation schedule in 2025 and 2026. To find out more about these changes, read the JCVI statement at the link below: 

Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) statement on changes to the childhood immunisation schedule - GOV.UK (external site) 

The JCVI will keep emerging evidence under review, including ongoing epidemiology and disease incidence. 

Welsh Government policy - Letter to professionals explaining planned changes to vaccine schedules for children and selected infants from 1 July 2025: Changes to routine childhood and selective neonatal hepatitis B vaccinations (WHC/2025/019) (external site) 

The immunisation schedule for Wales is available on our website at: Routine immunisation schedules for Wales - Public Health Wales 

 

 

Guidance

 

 

Other Guidance documents 

Vaccination programme recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and Welsh Government policy can be found at the links below. 

Welsh Health Circulars and Welsh Government letters:

Policy and guidance can also be found on the Public Health Wales SharePoint page:   

 

Training resources and events

Online courses and training materials about a number of vaccines and diseases can be accessed via the E-learning page. 

Further training information and resources are provided on the Training Resources and Events page. 

The slides and recordings to provide detailed briefings to support Health Boards with local training are available to view on Training (sharepoint.com) (access for NHS healthcare staff). 

 

Clinical resources and information

Green Book chapters affected by the changes.  

These chapters will be updated soon. Look out for updates to the Green Book chapters at the links below. 

Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status

It’s important to highlight that the advice in relation to Hib/MenC (Menitorix®) is different to Welsh policy. NHS Wales is deploying a ‘hard stop’ so from 1st July 2025, Hib/MenC (Menitorix®)will no longer be included in the childhood immunisation schedule in Wales. Please refer to Welsh Policy Changes to routine childhood and selective neonatal hepatitis B vaccinations (WHC/2025/019) [HTML] | GOV.WALES for further information.

Patient group directions (PGDs) and protocols 

PGD templates for vaccines can be found on the Welsh Medicines Advice Service (external site) PGDs page. 

 Public resources 

 

 

Data and surveillance