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Chickenpox vaccine to be made available on NHS

Chickenpox vaccine to be made available on NHS

Update: 2025-08-29
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An NHS vaccine for chickenpox will be rolled out in England from January, in the biggest expansion of the childhood immunisation programme for a decade. It will be offered as part of a new combined MMRV vaccine, for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, by GPs. Professor Helen Bedford, from the UCL Institute of Child Health joins us with the latest.


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Chickenpox vaccine to be made available on NHS

Chickenpox vaccine to be made available on NHS