Baby, pre-school and routine childhood vaccinations
Baby and pre-school vaccinations
Baby and pre-school vaccinations are due from when your child is 8 weeks old to when they start school. Over 95% of parents protect their child by ensuring they have these vaccinations.
Your GP or Practice Nurse gives baby and pre-school vaccinations at your doctor’s surgery. These visits are free.
If your child was born in Jersey, you'll get a reminder letter in the post when their 8-week vaccinations are due.
Routine childhood vaccinations
Your child will be offered a range of vaccinations, also known as immunisations, throughout their childhood. These vaccinations protect them against serious and potentially deadly diseases. Vaccinations are safe and extremely effective.
Find out more about vaccinations and why it's important to protect your child by watching these short videos.
Vaccination programme
The table below shows the age when your child will be offered their baby, pre-school and childhood vaccinations, and the diseases your child will be protected against.
Over time, vaccination doses and schedule timings change in Jersey (as in the UK) to reflect updated evidence and national guidance.
8 weeks old
| Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and Hepatitis B | DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB (6 in 1 vaccine) |  Infanrix Hexa
|
|---|
Meningococcal group B (MenB)
| MenB
| Bexsero
|
Rotavirus gastroenteritis
| Rotavirus
| Rotarix
|
12 weeks old
| Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hiband Hepatitis B | DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB (6 in 1 vaccine) | Infanrix Hexa
|
|---|
MenB
| MenB
| Bexsero
|
Rotavirus
| Rotavirus
| Rotarix
|
16 weeks old
| Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib and Hepatitis B | DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB (6 in 1 vaccine)
|
Infanrix Hexa
|
|---|
Pneumococcal (13 serotypes)
| PCV | Prevanar 13
|
| 1 year old
(on or after the child's first birthday)
| Pneumococcal
| PCV
| Prevanar 13
|
|---|
MenB
| MenB
|
Bexsero
|
Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella
| MMRV
| ProQuad or Priorix Tetra
|
18 months old
| Born on or after 1 July 2024
Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib and hepatitis B Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella
| Born on or before 30 June 2024 No appointment |
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB, MMRV
|
Infanrix Hexa
ProQuad or Priorix Tetra |
|---|
3 years and 4 months old or soon after
| Born on or after 1 January 2025
Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio
| Born on or before 31 December 2024
Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio
|
dTaP/IPV
MMRV
|
REPEVAX
Proquad or Priorix Tetra
|
|---|
Eligible paediatric age groups
| Influenza (each year from September)
| Live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV)
| LAIV
|
|---|
Selective immunisation programmes
We follow the UK complete immunisation schedule.
UK Health Security Agency immunisation schedule
Further information
Vaccine ingredients on the University of Oxford Vaccine Group website
Children and the flu vaccine
Baby six-week developmental check
School vaccinations
Children born outside Jersey
You should register with a GP as soon as you arrive in Jersey. This will help ensure you get a reminder letter when your child's vaccinations are due.
If you've been on the Island less than 6 months, and don't have a health card, you may have to pay the health insurance contribution (up to £20.28). Check with your GP. It's important you don't delay getting your child protected.
Doctors (GPs) fees, prescriptions and health cards
Changing your address
If you change address, you need to let us know so we can make sure future reminders are sent to your new address. You need to inform:
NHS England website
We run our Jersey vaccination schedule along similar lines to NHS England.
You can find more information about the diseases the different vaccines that protect against them, and when to have them on the NHS website.
NHS vaccinations and when to have them - NHS
gov.je