Researchers are always looking for ways to improve the protection that vaccines give us. SOMETIMES they discover that it is better to give booster vaccines at different intervals. New or improved vaccines are being developed all the time, and once these are tested and approved they MAY be introduced into the UK schedule (for example, see information on the introduction of Preened and then Prevenar13 on our PCV page).

Researchers ALSO try to identify the best possible protection that can be given by the smallest possible number of vaccines. Sometimes this leads to a vaccine being dropped from the schedule. For example, the dose of MenC vaccine given at 3 months of age was REMOVED on 1st July 2016. See our BLOG post on this change.

Researchers are always looking for ways to improve the protection that vaccines give us. Sometimes they discover that it is better to give booster vaccines at different intervals. New or improved vaccines are being developed all the time, and once these are tested and approved they may be introduced into the UK schedule (for example, see information on the introduction of Preened and then Prevenar13 on our PCV page).

Researchers also try to identify the best possible protection that can be given by the smallest possible number of vaccines. Sometimes this leads to a vaccine being dropped from the schedule. For example, the dose of MenC vaccine given at 3 months of age was removed on 1st July 2016. See our blog post on this change.