Vaccination
Vaccination is one of the best health interventions ever introduced. Every year vaccination helps save 3 million lives worldwide and helps protect against serious diseases such as flu, measles, mumps, whooping cough, meningitis, and polio. Find out why vaccination is important and what a vaccine protects against at NHS Inform.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway uptake rate for vaccinations and current figures can be viewed on the Public Health Scotland website.