Childhood Vaccination Changes 2025

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From Tuesday 1 July 2025, the NHS is making changes to the childhood vaccination schedule to better protect children against serious diseases.

The new schedule changes are the results of continued monitoring in the epidemiology of childhood illness and changes in availability of preventative vaccinations.

How is the vaccination schedule changing?

Starting with the earliest appointment in the new schedule the following vaccines will be changing. 

Routine childhood vaccine schedule:

  • MenB will move from 16 weeks to 12 weeks
  • PCV will move from 12 weeks to 16 weeks
  • Hib/MenC at 12 months will cease in the schedule
  • A new 18-month appointment for Hib (hexavalent) will be introduced
  • MMR dose 2 moving to 18 months from 3 years 4 months.

Selective neonatal Hepatitis B immunisation pathway:

  • HepB (monovalent) dose at 12 months ceases
  • A new 18-month appointment for hexavalent (DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB) will provide the final dose of HepB for this cohort.