Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this.
From the Science Media Centre and getting some media attention:
Dr Doug Brown, Chief Executive of the British Society for Immunology, said:
“England continues to miss key targets on uptake for vaccinations for children and no routine vaccination reaches the World Health Organization’s (WHO) coverage target of 95% uptake at the correct time point, according to this year’s report on NHS Childhood Vaccination Coverage Statistics.
“It is particularly worrying that today’s statistics show that only 84.5% of children receive the second MMR vaccine dose by age 5 – well below the 95% level recommended by the WHO. Measles is one of the world’s most contagious diseases and cases are currently on the rise in England. We must ensure that vaccination rates improve to stop the spread of measles and give our communities the best possible protection available against this serious illness.
“Vaccines are the safest and most effective method to protect our children against disease. In the past year, 12 out of the 14 childhood vaccinations have seen their uptake decrease, putting our communities at higher risk of infection and illness. Lower levels of vaccination mean that harmful diseases can spread, infecting people who have not been vaccinated, including vulnerable individuals who are unable to have vaccinations such as young babies, people with compromised immune systems or people with cancer.
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-new-nhs-digital-ukhsa-childhood-vaccination-coverage-statistics-for-england/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CEngland%20continues%20to%20miss%20key,NHS%20Childhood%20Vaccination%20Coverage%20Statistics.
The situation in Scotland? Immunisation levels have fallen since 2015 but remain within WHO targets.
Quarterly uptake rates remained high in Scotland; around 95% of children had received each routine immunisation by the time they were 12 months old, with the exception of rotavirus vaccine, which had 92.9% uptake.
https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/childhood-immunisation-statistics-scotland/childhood-immunisation-statistics-scotland-quarter-ending-30-june-2023/
The risk of a deadly measles outbreak in Scotland comes from new entrants.
The Scottish Government has issued advice on this to general practice and health boards:
New Entrants to Scotland
14. General Practice and Health Boards should ensure that a process is in place to determine the vaccination status of individuals and the need for any offer of vaccination for those people who are newly arrived in their area, whether from another part of Scotland, the UK or abroad. PHS is producing a leaflet to provide new entrants with information on how and when vaccines are offered in Scotland, how to check their vaccination status and receive any vaccinations to which they are entitled. New College and University Students
15. Building on the established links with colleges and universities, PHS are sharing messaging for university entrants/their parents prior to their arrival at Universities for Freshers’ Week. This will highlight the importance of ensuring that their vaccinations, including particularly MMR and MenACWY are up to date prior to arrival. It will also provide information about how to check their vaccination status and catch up if they have missed any vaccinations. Health Boards should work with universities to support this before and as students arrive in Scotland ahead of the start of term, during Freshers’ Week and in the weeks immediately following, when the risk of transmission is greatest.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I am sure we will have a sneer soon from Anas DRoss Cauld-Ham, based on the data for England that these data are the fault of ‘thae EssEmPee’. They must explain the role of pigeon droppings in all of this.
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Totally OT John, but noted the BBC Scotland’s latest ferry story where they are still trying to imply safety flaws in the build of the Glen Sannox with “The latest costs increase is largely driven by changes ordered by safety regulator the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)” – Note the “largely” doing all the heavy lifting on the innuendo https://archive.ph/jNAu1
Naturally this opens the door to yet again recycle from their vast back catalogue of “ferry stories”, and promoting their “Disclosures” program, despite none of it having the slightest relevance to the current status of the vessel…
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Of course irrespective of any facts and figures you produce to substantiate that Scotland is still within the level set by WHO….we all know that if and when this, as a story, is highlighted by our ‘bought and sold’ for media…..WHO (LOL) will ultimately be blamed…….it’s a predictable outcome we have to endure via our (their) ‘media’ and as night follows day tis always the favoured ‘angle’ the media chooses to pursue…….as per the branch offices of the collective media….but then given the current polls some voters within Scotland must indeed be buying into what they produce as a media….or why else would some voters perhaps be considering ‘lending’ their vote to New New Labour and NOT the SNP .
“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts and figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point”.
Leon Festinger A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Alas some convictions held by some voters are those which they have sourced via unreliable sources…..and thus logic is never applied or indeed an openness to others alternate point of view…..yet somehow newly formed TV channels who include Tory MP’s as presenters are viewed as reliable sources for some people who never seem to question how wrong it is that they, Tory MP’s, should have this public platform when their party are the current UK government…..surely that is illogical as something that is condoned and too very questionable as something that currently exists in their UK ?
Are some voters in Scotland sleepwalking into their own demise ?…..while others like us have woken up to the reality of how S*** (rhymes with PIT) this all is !
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To state the obvious – just imagine if the difference was reversed and it was the take-up rate in Scotland that was below the WHO’s recommended level! That would be a headline writer’s dream for the BBC and mainstream media outlets ‘serving’ Scotland: Baillie, Gulhane and the rest would be full ‘scandalised’ mode!
But England is a different country – the news media and opposition politicians do things very differently there, they have different priorities.
So what is the cause of difference one may ask. It’s not lack of competitive, adversarial politics although the Labour Party is trying hard to ape the incumbent governing party and make much of small differences.
It seems we have an alliance assembled and sustained by the shared objective of undermining support for self-determination for Scotland.
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Story in the NYTs about Palantir, a company used by the CIA and Pentagon. After extensive lobbying, Palantir is about to be handed a £500 million contract in England’s HNS. It started its NHS connection by only charging £1 at the start of the pandemic, after being invited into Downing Street in 2020.
Its Chair, billionaire Peter Theil, speaking at Oxford University in January, that the English NHS should embrace privatisation and the publics support for it was “Stockholm syndrome.
This is the future, as Labour also agrees with private access to NHS England (which will destroy the funding system for us).
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O/T apologies
Tory MP Andrew Griffith is reported as having ‘mistakenly’ called Wales a ‘province’, when he Griffiths, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury , was being interviewed by SKY News……during the interview he called Wales a ‘province’ whilst discussing the country’s new speeding laws…..the ‘mistakenly’ part was SKY News interpretation of the description/title that he, Griffiths, chose to use to declare how he, and I am sure his Tory colleagues, also sees Wales …..
I suspect though it was deliberate act as I am sure he would also in any interview refer to Scotland as a region or he could use Penny Mordaunt’s description that Scotland, Wales and NI were territories within her and his UK (England) where all apparently require TORY Territorial Secretaries of State over ruling each one of us (though who pray is England’s Sec of State ?)……their insults , that the media cover up and disguise as being ‘mistakes’, just keep coming do they not…..funny how they only come in the direction of all nations in the UK bar ONE !
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