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# Health chiefs urge parents to ensure children are up to date with MMR vaccinations
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/health-chiefs-urge-parents-to-ensure-children-are-up-to-date-with-mmr-vaccinations/
- Published: 2023-04-30T06:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-27T12:25:58.000Z
- Description: Health chiefs are urging parents across Lichfield and Burntwood to ensure their children are up to date with routine vaccinations.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Health, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:01, News

Health chiefs are urging parents across Lichfield and Burntwood to ensure their children are up to date with routine vaccinations.

It comes after data revealed that Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent has seen MMR vaccine rates remain below the national average having fallen from 95% of first doses administered in 2014-15 to the current rate of 93%.

Meanwhile second doses have dropped from 92% in 2016-17 to 89%.

A spokesperson for the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board said:

> “The World Health Organisation have predicted a rise in measles cases across Europe in 2023, making it is more important than ever to make sure that your child is fully protected.  
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> “Measles can make a child seriously unwell and can lead to pneumonia with rare long-lasting conditions such as blindness and brain damage.  
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> “To make sure your children are up to date check your child’s red book or GP records and make an appointment to catch up any missed doses.”  
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> Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board spokesperson

The vaccine offers protection against measles mumps and rubella, with children needing two doses – the first aged one and the second at three years and four months old.