Róisín Shortall
Question:590. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the uptake rates for the infant vaccination and screening programmes by health office. [11732/17]
View answerTuesday, 7 March 2017
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The national immunisation uptake statistics are published on annual and quarterly bases on the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre website
http://www.hpsc.ie/A-Z/VaccinePreventable/Vaccination/ImmunisationUptakeStatistics/.
These statistics give the uptake rates at 12 and 24 months for each Community Healthcare Organisation and Local Health Office for all vaccines in the Primary Childhood Immunisation Programme. The report for Quarter 3 2016 was published in January 2017, and the Annual Report for 2015 was published in April 2016.
The uptake rates for child health developmental screening are published quarterly and can be found at http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/performancereports/.