Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009;94:829-830
IN-BRIEF
Perspectives
Action on immunisation: no data, no action
Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence to Natasha S Crowcroft, Surveillance and Epidemiology, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, 480 University Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M5G1V2, Canada; natasha.crowcroft@oahpp.ca
Accepted 30 October 2008
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In the UK, the national immunisation programme is delivered free at point of care through the National Health Service (NHS) primary healthcare teams, led by general practitioners (GPs), and to a smaller and locally variable extent through child health clinics. Nearly all British children are vaccinated through the NHS, rather than privately. The UK national immunisation programme has been run by Child Health Systems which are in the process of being replaced as part of the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) implemented by Connecting for Health, a Government agency. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) expressed concerns about the first system to be rolled out in August 2005. Since then, some of the problems which have resulted from the new systems have been well publicised, including the inability of systems to track children and calculate vaccination coverage.1 2 3 In London, two systems, the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) and the
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