Child Immunisations

All routine appointments are organised by Anthony at Beech House Medical Practice. Instead of a appointment slip being sent to your home they are sent to the surgery and a phone call will be made to organise a appointment date and time. If you have not been contacted at least a week in advance of your child’s next vaccination please ring the surgery.

Dr Holland, Dr Morris and Dr Keripe carry out development checks on children at 8 weeks of age, coinciding with the child’s first immunisations. Subsequent assessments are performed by the Health Visitors next door at Hazel Grove Clinic.

Childhood immunisations are carried out on Tuesday mornings, with input from the above doctors and Practice Nurse/Nurse Practitioner. Necessary catch up vaccinations can also be carried out at the Tuesday clinic.

All these services are performed at the surgery.

If a Tuesday morning is difficult to attend we can arrange a appointment for our practice nurse here at the surgery on another day.

Here’s a checklist of the vaccines that are routinely offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS, and the age at which you should ideally have them.

Immunisation Programme:

2 months:

  • Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib, a bacterial infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis in young children) given as a 5-in-1 single jab known as DTaP/IPV/Hib
  • Pneumococcal infection 

3 months:                    

  • 5-in-1, second dose (DTaP/IPV/Hib)
  • Meningitis C

4 months:

  • 5-in-1, third dose (DTaP/IPV/Hib)
  • Pneumococcal infection, second dose
  • Meningitis C, second dose

Around 12 months:

  • Meningitis C, third dose
  • Hib, fourth dose (Hib/MenC given as a single jab)

Around 13 months:

  • MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), given as a single jab
  • Pneumococcal infection, third dose

3 years and 4 months, or soon after:

  • MMR second jab
  • Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio (DtaP/IPV), given as a 4-in-1 pre-school booster

Around 12-13 years:

  • Cervical cancer (HPV) vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer (girls only): three jabs given within six months

Around 13-18 years:

  • Diphtheria, tetanus and polio booster (Td/IPV), given as a single jab

For further information on childhood vaccinations you can visit the NHS Choices website.