Vaccination

Clinician putting a plaster on a young person's arm after a vaccination

Get fully covered with your second MenB jab

Get Winter Ready - book your vaccinations

Book winter vaccinations now, urge health chiefs

Toddlers will now be able to get their flu vaccine at local pharmacies for the first time.

Toddlers can now get the flu vaccine at community pharmacies

Those eligible for the flu vaccine are being urged to take up the offer as soon as they can.

The full list of everyone eligible for the free flu vaccine

Measles is a highly contagious viral infection.

How to get the MMR vaccine - as one in five children unprotected

Whooping cough can have serious and deadly consequences for young babies.

How to get the whooping cough vaccine in pregnancy

Over 300,000 more people will now be eligible for the shingles vaccine.

You could be eligible for the shingles vaccine - check new criteria

From January next year children will be eligible for the chickenpox vaccine.

This is when your child will be able to get the chickenpox vaccine

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Health: Call to Boost MMR Protection

Depending on the country you are travelling to, you may need to get vaccinations or take medication for malaria.

How to find out what vaccinations you need to get before you travel

New data released by the UK Health Security Agency shows 1,257 of the 3,154 pregnant women (40 per cent) registered with GPs in Wigan received a flu vaccination during the most recent winter flu season

More expectant mums opt for flu jab

A nurse prepares to give a patient the mpox vaccine.

New mpox vaccination sites opening across England - who is eligible?

A walk in one of the borough's greenspaces such as Mesnes Park has health benefits

Health column: Keeping well during the winter months

How to prevent flu this Christmas

Health tips to prevent or reduce the impact of flu this Christmas

A new case of mpox has been detected in Leeds, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed.

The differences between the mild and deadly Mpox strains explained

Monkeypox pathogen. Credit: UKHS

Mpox symptoms as first case of Clade 1b strain found in the UK
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The NHS are asking people to protect themselves from a 'tripledemic' of RSV, Covid and flu this winter.

What is the 'tripledemic'? Cold, flu and RSV risks explained

Sophie Dale with her son Levi who was nearly killed by measles.

Measles signs and symptoms as baby 'nearly dies'

Well Pharmacy is now urging people to book themselves in for a winter flu jab.

Pharmacists stock-up on flu jab after major outbreak in Australia

NHS health checks in a community venue in Wigan

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Whooping cough, clinically known as pertussis, is a bacterial infection which affects the lungs

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Stock image of child being given immunisation jab (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Families urged to make sure children are protected against 'terrible diseases'

UK holidaymakers have been issued a travel warning for the Caribbean, parts of Africa, Central and South America as yellow fever is on the rise. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Killer disease hits tourist hotspots

Pregnant women and young babies are being urged to have the whooping cough vaccine

Whooping cough vaccine call to new and expectant mums

Alzheimer’s disease: New vaccine ‘could reduce or prevent’ impact of illness and ‘eliminate toxic cells’

Alzheimer’s disease: Scientists believe new vaccine offers ‘fresh hope

In this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, from 2003, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's.(Photo: CDC/Getty Images)

UKHSA want to ‘eliminate’ monkeypox after WHO announcement

Covid-19 booster jabs will be ooffered to ‘vulnberable’ people this spring

Covid-19 booster jabs to be offered to most vulnerable this spring
The Covid booster jabs will be offered to people six months after their last dose
Patrick Hollis

The Government is expected to announce a U-turn on mandatory Covid jabs for NHS staff (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory Covid jabs for NHS workers ‘to be scrapped’ amid staff shortage fears

Leigh MP James Grundy

James Grundy MP: Vaccination is still our best tool

People are likely to need Covid-19 booster shots “for a number of years to come”, a Pfizer boss has said

Boosters could be needed for ‘years to come’ – Pfizer

Delta variant twice as likely to cause hospitalisation

NHS staff and key workers receive the coronavirus vaccine (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Self-isolation rules change from today: this is what you need to know

A number of restrictions regarding the Games have been announced (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

All the Covid rules for Tokyo Olympic Games

Under-30s will be offered alternative to Astrazeneca over 'very rare' blood clot concern (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Under-30s will be offered alternative to Astrazeneca over 'very rare' blood clot...

Sir Simon spoke of the prospect of a “much more normal future” (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid-19 could become ‘much more treatable’ in next 6 to 18 months - according t...

Hundreds of Wigan families face continued anxiety as to how to protect their children in this high-risk group

Vaccine concerns raised for Wigan's high-risk youngsters

Covid restrictions may still be needed next winter despite the vaccine rollout -...

Family doctors in England to begin giving Covid-19 vaccinations

Covid vaccine: Family doctors in England to begin giving coronavirus jabs

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The jab protects against six diseases

Wigan achieves 'herd immunity' for deadly diseases

Vaccination against the HPV virus, which causes most cervical cancers, began more than a decade ago (Photo: Shutterstock)

Cervical cancer could one day be wiped out by success of HPV vaccination program...

Currently only babies born after May 1, 2015 are eligible for the vaccine

Parents in plea for brain bug vaccine

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