Childhood Immunisations

Descriptions

Childhood Immunisations / Building on learning from the existing Camden childhood vaccinations health inequalities project, the programme intends to address low uptakes of childhood immunisations via 3 work-streams:Offering training to and education to parent champions and community leaders: Providing community leaders and parent champions with access to education on immunisation and hesitancy. Challenges include language, culture, and confidence; the programme will seek to build a relationship with communities by listening and identifying the barriers to immunisation, jointly address them, building confidence in health services and of immunisation.Pop up clinics: Provision of pop-up site vaccination clinics in children and community centres in Islington’s most deprived wards (dependent on the phase 2 vaccination schedule)Communications & patient engagement: Ensure that communications and patient information materials are in the relevant language to encourage informed consent