England’s NHS is set offer free a chickenpox vaccine as part of the national immunisation schedule to all young children from January 2026. Children will be offered the vaccine along with the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine as a new MMRV combination at 12 and 18 months of age. Older children up to 11 years will receive catch up doses ensuring most young children are protected.

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Chickenpox is highly infectious and very common in the UK. A study 1 shows around 4000 people are admitted every year to UK hospitals with admission costing £1700 and a  total cost of at least £6.8million to the NHS. Sadly about 20 people also lose their lives each year. You might think chickenpox is a mild disease and to some extent it is… and it is not. As a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and father of two, I have seen how innocuous it can be and yet also witnessed its d

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