The United Kingdom Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

Article about the United Kingdom Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, from Vaccine, Volume 28, Supplement 1, 19 April 2010, A54-A57. The United Kingdom Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation provides advice to the Ministers of Health on all aspects of vaccination. Under recent legislation a recommendation from the Committee confers the right to the vaccine concerned to the population of England Wales. A critical aspect of both advice and recommendations is that the vaccination is shown to reach a cost-effectiveness threshold. This usually requires sophisticated mathematical modelling and economics.