World Immunisation Week

World Immunisation Week is an awareness campaign led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and celebrated annually in the last week of the April. It aims to drive collective global action to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.

World Immunisation Week 2025

For World Immunisation Week 2025, we are calling on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to provide additional tax relief on flu vaccinations to employees who are reimbursed through work, in line with vaccinations funded directly by employers.

The two-tier system created by this loophole creates a real risk of employees failing to get vaccinated due to the additional expense – a cost to public health whose removal would constitute a rounding error in public finances.

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What we learned from World Immunisation Week 2024

Never Too Late to Change the Rate: Attitudes of UK adults aged 50-70 towards respiratory vaccinations

Building a Path to Trust

What is vaccine hesitancy?

Vaccine hesitancy describes uncertainty when making decisions about vaccines, either on a personal level or by segments of the population. Vaccine hesitant people may be concerned about the jabs for COVID-19, flu, HPV, mRNA vaccines or the concept of immunisation as a whole.

Our research speaking to immunistion professionals tells us that growing vaccine hestiancy has led to increased difficulty in having coversations about vaccinations compared to two years ago. Reasons for this difficulty include the proliferation of fake news, conspiracy theories and a general confusion about how vaccines work.

But we also know that talking more about vaccines and having those conversations outside of just clinical settings is a great way to bridge the divide – so let's get talking!