We must soon cease vaccinating
Please check whether this statement applies to your child
Good HealthKeeping Ltd ceased to exist in August 2008 and its activities were continued by a Partnership of the same name. The Care Quality Commission noticed this on 7th April 2009, cancelled the Company registration and insists the Partnership must register anew. We have decided not to, as this is a considerable burden and we have already "retired".
We will fulfill the appointments we have given, and complete all courses of two vaccine doses, but expect to have ceased vaccinating at all by 30th June 2009.
If you have not already made an appointment for a rubella vaccination, we regret that since 7th April 2009 it is no longer possible to do so.
If you have an appointment for rubella, or have received rubella and await a measles dose, then please be aware of the limited time available to complete your child's course.
If you have paid a deposit but have repeatedly postponed the rubella appointment, then the dose of vaccine purchased for you may have gone out of date. We regret that in that circumstance your deposit is forfeit, and we cannot now undertake to begin your child's course.
If you feel you do not fit into any of these categories, then please call us and discuss the position. However bear in mind that, if we continue to offer registrable services, the Care Quality Commission may choose to prosecute us under Section 11 of the Care Standards Act 2000. We are not in a position to make any exceptions or accept any special cases.
We recommend that you contact www.jabs.org.uk to find another organisation prepared to vaccinate your child otherwise than according to the nationally recommended schedule.
If you have received rubella and measles vaccines according to our alternative schedule, you have no need to obtain any further doses of single vaccine. Boys who catch mumps before 10 will never require any booster of any MMR ingredient. Girls who catch mumps will need a dose of MMR at 19, to boost rubella.
If your child reaches age 9 (girl) or 10 (boy) without catching mumps naturally, you can safely accept a dose of MMR vaccine from your GP to provide mumps protection during puberty. For your child MMR will behave exactly like single mumps, since they can rely on continuing protection against rubella and measles. They will also require MMR every 10 years, to maintain mumps protection. If the reminder in your child's red book does not make all this clear, then check with us .
We shall be happy, for so long as we can still answer e-mails and the telephone, to advise former clients about any aspect of their children's health. Otherwise we recommend that you look up www.greatvine.com for professional advice along much the same lines as we have been giving.