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Petition · past parliament

Re introduce the MenC vaccine for babies aged 12 weeks of age.

Closed 5,850 signatures

What the petition asks

From July 2016, the MenC vaccine for 12 week old babies was discontinued from the NHS childhood vaccination programme.
In a letter to Public Health England in March 2016 The Joint Committee on Vaccination (JCVI) recommended that infants aged 12 weeks no longer require the vaccination against meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) due to the success of the immunisation programme that started in 1999.
One case is one too many and today there is a baby girl in Bradford fighting for her life after contracting MenC at the age of 10 months.

Timeline

1 Dec 2017 Petition opened for signatures
1 Jun 2018 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 5,850
Status Closed
Opened 1 Dec 2017
Closed 1 Jun 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.