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The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom.
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1 year immunisations

MenB vaccine

The MenB vaccine helps protect against meningococcal group B bacteria that can cause serious illnesses, including meningitis and sepsis. It's given to children when they're 8 weeks, 16 weeks and 1 year old.
In Short

Please click the link for information about The MenB vaccine. This helps protect children against bacterial infections caused by meningococcal group B bactetia (MenB).

MenB can cause serious illnesses, including:

meningitis (an infection in the brain and spinal cord)
septicaemia (blood poisoning)
sepsis (a life-threatening reaction to an infection).

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