Teen immunisation
The teenage years are a key time for some important vaccinations.
Students too may need certain vaccinations. Infections can spread among students very quickly and there have been serious outbreaks of mumps in universities in recent years. Teenagers leaving home to go to college or university should be vaccinated against mumps and meningitis C if they didn't have those vaccinations as children.
The vaccines
The NHS vaccinations routinely offered free of charge to teenagers.
Mumps alert
There has been a lot of mumps among teenagers in recent years. Advice on how to prevent the disease with vaccination can be found online.
