HEALTH officials have launched a London-wide campaign to improve take-up of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab.
Senior doctors at Bromley Primary Care Trust (PCT) have joined colleagues across the capital in a bid to immunise thousands of primary school-age children in and around the borough.
The PCT is arranging school vaccination sessions to encourage uptake of the single jab, which we reported recently is falling.
Revealing a current outbreak of mumps in the borough, Bromley's joint director of public health Dr Angela Bhan said: "We need to ensure children are protected."
Under the scheme, participating schools will invite parents to have their child vaccinated at school.
In September, Dr Bhan told News Shopper there was "great concern" about a drop in take-up.
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