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Thillagavathie Pillay1,2, Gergely Toldi3, Abid Hussain4
1Neonatology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK tilly.pillay@uhl-tr.nhs.uk.
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The BCG vaccination programme in the UK is risk based and has usually been given to eligible babies soon after birth. On advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, NHS England and Improvement recently revised the timing of this vaccination to 28 days after birth or soon thereafter. In this article, we highlight the change in timing of vaccination, the rationale and barriers to BCG uptake that this change may pose.
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