BCG vaccination information

The following links provide further information on the BCG vaccine and BCG vaccination programme.

 

For the public

NHS Choices

• BCG (tuberculosis) vaccination (April 2010)
• Tuberculosis - Prevention (January 2009)

Department of Health

• TB, BCG vaccine and your baby (February 2008)

NICE Guidelines

• Preventing and treating tuberculosis (page 13) (March 2006)

TB Alert

• The Truth About TB - Questions & Answers (includes BCG) (2009)
• Tuberculosis (TB) and the BCG Vaccination (December 2007)

 

For health professionals

Department of Health

• 'The Green Book': Immunisation against infectious disease - Chapter 32: Tuberculosis (June 2010) 
• BCG vaccine SSI: Frequently asked questions (January 2006)
• Operational note - Changes to the BCG vaccination programme in England (August 2005)
• Professional letter from the Chief Medical Officer - Changes to the BCG vaccination programme (July 2005)

NICE Guidelines

• Tuberculosis - Clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis, and measures for its prevention and control: Section 1.7 (web version) (September 2008)

Statens Serum Institut

• BCG Vaccine Danish Strain 1331 (August 2010)

NaTHNaC

• Travel Health Information Sheet: Tuberculosis (November 2007)

 

Non-UK information sources

• Immunisation in children (Health Protection Agency National Knowledge Service - TB, March 2010)

 

Other links

• Health Protection Agency - Immunisation Department 
• Health Protection Agency - TB Vaccine Research
• Department of Health - Immunisation 
• Department of Health - Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

Last reviewed: 21 March 2011