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Does providing social services with information and advice on immunisation status of "looked after children" improve uptake?
1 Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust, 6th floor, Vantage Point, New England Road, Lewes BN1 4GW, UK
2 9b Glebe Park Avenue, Havant, Hants PO9 3JR, UK
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Dr M Ashton-Key, Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust, 6th floor, Vantage Point, New England Road, Lewes BN1 4GW, UK;
martin.ashton-key{at}bhcpct.nhs.uk
We prospectively assessed whether providing social services with information on the immunisation status for a cohort of looked after children in the care of an urban unitary authority in England improved uptake rates. The provision of such information did not improve immunisation coverage in these children.
Keywords: social services; looked after; immunisation status
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Arch. Dis. Child. 2003 88: 275.
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