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Families across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire can now get their children protected against chicken pox. The NHS added the jabs to the routine childhood vaccination programme from January 2026.

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Young children will be offered a free chicken pox jab on the NHS as part of their routine childhood vaccinations for the first time. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella and become the MMRV jab. Chickenpox, ...

Young children in the UK are being offered protection against chickenpox on the NHS for the first time. It is being added to the list of standard childhood vaccinations from the start of January, and ...