Nurse Services
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Useful Links and Resources for Children’s Vaccines
Nurse Services
At Blackpool Medical Centre, our experienced nursing team provides a range of essential services to support your health and wellbeing. This includes comprehensive ante-natal care to guide you through a healthy pregnancy, childhood vaccinations to protect your little ones from preventable diseases and cervical check screening to help detect any early changes in cervical health.
Our nurses are dedicated to delivering compassionate, expert care to ensure you and your family receive the best support at every stage.
Ante Natal Care
We provide care under the HSE Mother and Baby Scheme, which gives all expectant mothers free GP visits for their maternity care. This includes shared antenatal care with your maternity hospital. After birth, both mother and baby are entitled to free checks at 2 weeks and 6 weeks.
Childhood Vaccines
Primary Childhood Vaccination Schedule
Vaccination is a safe and effective way to protect babies and young children from serious illnesses. The risk of complications from these diseases far outweighs any minor side effects that may occur after Immunisation.
You can download the full Immunisation schedule and a helpful parent guide by clicking the images below.
For more details about the Primary Childhood Immunisation Schedule click the button below
School Vaccine Programme
As part of the school vaccine programme:
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Junior Infants are offered the 4-in-1 and MMR vaccines.
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First-year secondary students are offered the HPV, Tdap, and MenACWY vaccines.
These vaccines are also available to children in special schools or those who are homeschooled and fall within the same age groups.
All vaccines provided through the school vaccination programme are free of charge.
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HPV Vaccines
At Blackrock Medical Centre, we strongly support the HPV vaccination programme for both girls and boys. The HPV vaccine has been offered to first-year secondary school girls since 2010, primarily to protect against cervical cancer.
Since September 2019, the programme has expanded to include boys, as HPV can also cause genital warts and various types of cancers, including cancers of the throat, anus, and penis.
Vaccinating both boys and girls helps significantly reduce the spread of HPV and the long-term risks associated with the virus.
HPV-related cancers:
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Girls: Cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, throat, head and neck
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Boys: Anus, throat, penis, head and neck
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Both: Genital warts
For more detailed information about HPV and the national vaccination programme, visit:
Children’s Flu Vaccine
At Blackrock Medical Centre, we offer the nasal flu vaccine free of charge for all children aged 2 to 17. Your child does not need to be in an at-risk group to receive it. The vaccine helps protect children from the flu and also reduces the chance of spreading it to family members, such as parents, siblings, and grandparents.
The nasal flu vaccine has a strong safety record and has been used in the US since 2003 and the UK since 2013.
To book a flu vaccine appointment for your child, please contact our reception.
For full details, visit:
Cervical Check Screening
If you have received your Cervical Check invitation letter, please contact our reception team to book an appointment.
Cervical screening helps prevent cervical cancer by identifying abnormal cells in the cervix (the lower part of the womb). It is not a cancer test but a check on the cervix’s health. Through the National Cervical Screening Programme, Cervical Check offers free smear tests to women aged 25 to 65.
Nurse Services FAQ’s
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