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The BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine helps protect babies and children against tuberculosis (TB).
BCHC began administering the BCG vaccine to newborn babies in Birmingham and Solihull in April 2022.
The change to community immunisation teams (from providers of maternity and tuberculosis service providers) follows Public Health England (PHE) advice that babies are to be offered screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) as part of the newborn blood spot test offered five days after birth.
As babies found to have SCID are unable to have live vaccines, PHE has advised that all reasonable efforts should be made to ensure a 'not suspected' SCID screen result before vaccinations are administered.
Parents or carers of babies whose SCID test is 'not suspected' will be invited to take their baby to an immunisation clinic near their home within about four weeks.
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