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Nursery settings have doubts over scheme to promote vaccinations to parents

Management Health
In our last issue, Nursery World reported on a scheme in Brent, believed to be the first in the country, which will pay early years settings small grants to boost vaccination rates of pre-school children.

We asked you to send in your views about whether nurseries should promote vaccinations and received a range of responses (see below).

Last week, the World Health Organisation issued a warning that European countries needed to take action, in the wake of 26,000 cases of measles between January and October this year. In response, France has launched a national campaign to raise awareness of the need for the MMR vaccination.

Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO regional director for Europe, said, 'The increase in measles in European countries reveals a serious challenge to achieving the regional measles elimination goal by 2015. Every country in Europe must take the opportunity to raise coverage among susceptible populations.'

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