We are aware that practices are starting to receive queries about Polio and the Poliovirus vaccination. To help respond to queries, with advice from Norfolk County Council Public Health, the CCG Comms Team have produced a script which practices may wish to include on the practice website (see Appendix).
Please also note the following in terms of general public health messaging:
POLIO VACCINATION
- After clean water, vaccination is the most effective public health intervention in the world for saving lives and promoting good health. It is essential to maintain a high uptake in order to reduce the risk transmission in the under vaccinated
- The polio vaccine is part of the routine childhood immunisation program given at your GPs surgery when a baby is eight, 12 and 16 weeks old as part of the 6-in-1 vaccine.
- It is given again at three years and four months as part of the 4-in-1 (DTaP/IPV) pre-school booster, and again at 14yrs as part of the 3-in-1 (Td/IPV) teenage booster.
- All of these vaccines doses need to be given to a person to be fully vaccinated.
- In 20/21 95% of Norfolk babies at one year have had their polio vaccines: o 96% at 2yrs 92% at 5yrs