A Guide To Childhood Immunisation
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This guide describes all routine childhood immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age. Immunisations is the safest and most effective way of protecting your baby against serious diseases. By having your baby immunised at the recommended times,you are protecting them through early childhood against: ~ diphtheria ~ tetanus ~ whooping cough (pertussis) ~ Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) ~ polio ~ meningitis C (meningococcal group C) ~ pneumococcal infection ~ measles ~ mumps, and ~ rubella (German measles). [More info...]

Arm Against Cervical Cancer
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The essential guide to the hpv vaccination for girls aged 12 to 13. This leaflet is about the new vaccination (injection) to help protect you against cervical cancer when you get older. [More info...]

Emergency Multilingual Phrasebook
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The Emergency Multilingual phrasebook, produced and updated by the British Red Cross Society with advice and funding from the Department of Health and endorsed by the British Association for Emergency Medicine (BAEM) is translated into 36 languages.It covers the most common medical questions and terms to help first contact staff communicate with patients who do not speak English and make an initial assessment while an interpreter is contacted. The phrasebook can be downloaded in PDF below. [More info...]

Frequently Asked Questions About Asthma
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Download these translated FAQs about asthma to help you in your work with people whose first language is not English. These questions have been designed with the healthcare professional in mind and are in English followed by the community language. The FAQs are listed in English below. [More info...]

Important Information About Swine Flu
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The leaflet includes information about what swine flu is and how it could spread, what UK governments have done to prepare for a wider outbreak of flu, how you can protect yourself against flu and what to do if you have flu symptoms. [More info...]

Measles
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The number of children catching measles is rising. To be protected they need to be immunised with the MMR vaccine. Children under the age of 18 years who have missed their MMR vaccination should have the vaccine to stop them getting measles. [More info...]

Seasonal Flu: Why You Should Have The Vaccination
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You may have heard a lot recently about different sorts of flu virus, including seasonal flu and swine flu. This leaflet explains the differences between them; who is more likely to be affected by seasonal flu; and why it is very important that people should still have their free seasonal flu vaccination. [More info...]

Talk To Your Baby In Your Own Language
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The best way to help your child learn to talk is to talk to him as much as possible in your own language - it doesn’t have to be English. That way, your child will learn to talk confidently, and will be ready to learn English when he starts at nursery or school. [More info...]

Tuberculosis
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This leaflet aims to raise awareness about tuberculosis [TB]. TB (tuberculosis) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, although it can affect any part of the body. Aims to answer the following questions and more; How is TB spreadand am I likely to get infected? How will I know if I've got TB? If I have TB, can I be cured? I thought TB was prevented by a vaccine? How else can TB be prevented? I'm going abroad, do I need a BCG injection? [More info...]