Vaccine coverage and COVER (Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly)

The COVER programme monitors immunisation coverage data for children in the United Kingdom who reach their first, second or fifth birthday during each evaluation quarter. This information is promptly fed back to local level, creating the opportunity to improve coverage and to detect changes in vaccine coverage quickly.

Please note that the collection of these data has been mandated by the Secretary of State, through the Review of Central Returns (ROCR), to the HPA (Reference: ROCR/OR/0105/004MAND). ROCR aims to minimise the burden of data collection on the NHS: More details can be found at: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/rocr

The ROCR team are keen to receive feedback on central data collections from the colleagues who complete/submit returns.  In particular, around the length of time data collections take to complete and any issues, suggested improvements or duplication of data collections.  Feedback can be submitted to ROCR using an online form .

Summary of full quarterly reports since 2005 published in the Health Protection Report (HPR).