My child should have been offered meningitis vaccine by the NHS | Letter

Aimée Hamblin recalls her frustration when she had to get her son vaccinated privately

I completely agree with the points made in Devi Sridhar’s article on meningitis (Meningitis is back – and here is why, 17 March). She says that the NHS routine vaccination schedule covers children born after 2015. In fact, it was extended to babies born from May 2015 in a catchup programme. I remember this clearly as my eldest son was born in December 2014. I recall the frustration that I felt on my maternity leave in 2015 when he was not eligible for a MenB vaccine on the NHS like his younger peers.

This means that many current Year 6 students are not vaccinated depending on the month in which they were born. My husband and I took the decision to vaccinate our son privately at significant, but completely worthwhile, cost in 2015.