00:01Before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, immunisation coverage had been steadily increasing across
00:09the board for about seven or eight years.
00:12However, since the pandemic, it's all been downhill.
00:16And so we now have five consecutive years of decline at all the relevant age groups.
00:23Certainly, the declining vaccine coverage does make unvaccinated individuals prone to
00:31some quite serious vaccine preventable diseases and can cause hospitalisation and even death.
00:40We've been conducting large national surveys of parents of young children, and those surveys
00:48have found that parents report a range of barriers, so difficulty getting appointments
00:52with their GP or other immunisation provider, difficulty with costs associated with appointments,
01:01difficulty with transport getting there, needing to take time off work during business hours.
01:08And particularly concerningly, acceptance barriers reported by parents were increasing.
01:14So, in particular, concerns about the safety of vaccines and lack of trust in information
01:22provided by healthcare professionals.
01:24But there's no silver bullet to turning us around.
01:28We need a range of different strategies.
01:32So, in terms of access, reducing cost barriers, making immunisation easily accessible, including
01:40out of hours, and in terms of acceptance, communication across the board, and supporting GPs and other
01:49immunisation providers to have respectful, evidence-based conversations with their patients
01:56about their concerns and questions about immunisation.
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