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Health and social care service changes: the potential to increase inequalities
1 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London, UK
2 Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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Dr D A C Elliman
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1 3JH, UK; ellimd@gosh.nhs.uk
Perspective on the paper by Granerod et al (see page 805)
Keywords: vaccine coverage; childhood immunisation; vaccine uptake rate
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The paper by Granerod et al1 shows how children seemed to have been "lost" when the Child Health Information Systems (CHISs) were interrogated to provide the routine immunisation statistics (COVER). This was at a time when the reports changed from being based on a resident population to being based on the primary care trust (PCT) responsible population, i.e. those children who were patients of the PCT’s GPs, but not necessarily resident within the PCT’s geographical boundaries.2 The United Kingdom has probably the most accurate and timely system in the world for monitoring immunisation uptake.3 Most other countries rely on either knowing the numbers of doses of vaccine administered or on representative surveys.4,5 It is of concern that this system was compromised, but the trend of improvement in accuracy reported by the authors is encouraging. However, currently (April 2006), 10 of the 31 PCTs in London are unable to
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