Vaccinations

This page focusses on the UK vaccination programme carried out by the NHS.

For early detection (rather than direct prevention) see the testing & screening article for more information on the UK's screening and testing programmes.

Here's a summary of the programmes and who they are offered to, roughly ordered by age:

Programme	When	Offered To	Prevents
blah	nn	blah	blah

Travelling

The UK's NHS will provide the following vaccinations for free;[^1] - polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio injection) - typhoid - hepatitis A - cholera

If you need any of these you'll have to pay[^1] - although if you're under 25 and never received these as part of the general vaccination program, you may be able to get them for free; - hepatitis B - Japanese encephalitis - meningitis - rabies - tick-borne encephalitis - tuberculosis (TB) - yellow fever

References

[^1] NHS vaccinations and when to have them

Metadata

Last reviewed: 2025-10-06