The full list of uptake of the main childhood vaccines in each London borough in 2024/25 has been released by the the UK Health Security Agency. The data shows wildly varying uptakes in different parts of London for the MMR vaccine, the four-in-one booster and the six-in-one vaccine.
There are 14 local authorities in London that are likely to have underestimated vaccination take-up in 2024/25: Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Ealing, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Westminster.
This is because these authorities were unable to include data for children not registered with a GP, meaning their figures do not reflect the full population in each area. As such, year on year comparisons for these local authorities should be interpreted with caution.
The 14 authorities affected by this issue are marked on the lists with an asterisk. The figures for Hackney include the City of London
Three sets of figures are included below: uptake for both doses at age five of the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps & rubella); uptake at age five of the four-in-one booster (polio, whooping cough, tetanus & diphtheria); and uptake at age five of the six-in-one vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type B, and hepatitis B).
MMR vaccine (measles, mumps & rubella), both doses at age five take up in London boroughs
Each list is ordered by the percentage of five-year-olds who received the vaccine, starting with the highest, and reads from left to right: name of local authority; proportion of children vaccinated in 2024/25; proportion of children vaccinated (in brackets) in 2023/24.
Sutton 79.8% (80.7%)
Kingston upon Thames 79.0% (77.1%)
*Bromley 77.7% (86.1%)
Havering 77.4% (79.3%)
*Hillingdon 74.3% (81.0%)
Wandsworth 73.8% (74.6%)
Tower Hamlets 73.6% (73.9%)
*Bexley 73.5% (82.9%)
Waltham Forest 72.3% (72.0%)
*Southwark 72.1% (79.7%)
*Lambeth 72.0% (77.9%)
*Ealing 71.9% (79.4%)
Merton 71.8% (72.2%)
Barnet 71.5% (72.9%)
*Hounslow 70.8% (75.9%)
*Lewisham 70.8% (79.6%)
Croydon 70.3% (68.1%)
Redbridge 69.2% (69.8%)
Barking & Dagenham 69.1% (68.5%)
Richmond upon Thames 68.8% (72.3%)
Newham 67.2% (67.7%)
*Harrow 67.1% (77.8%)
*Greenwich 66.2% (79.2%)
Haringey 65.0% (64.5%)
*Brent 64.6% (75.0%)
Camden 64.6% (65.7%)
Enfield 64.3% (65.8%)
Islington 64.3% (63.8%)
*Westminster 59.9% (64.3%)
*Hammersmith & Fulham 59.2% (67.6%)
Hackney 58.3% (60.8%)
*Kensington & Chelsea 56.3% (64.5%)
Four-in-one booster (polio, whooping cough, tetanus & diphtheria) at age five
Each list is ordered by the percentage of five-year-olds who received the vaccine, starting with the highest, and reads from left to right: name of local authority; proportion of children vaccinated in 2024/25; proportion of children vaccinated (in brackets) in 2023/24.
Sutton 74.3% (80.0%)
Havering 73.8% (78.6%)
*Bromley 73.1% (83.6%)
Kingston upon Thames 72.0% (76.4%)
Tower Hamlets 71.4% (74.3%)
Redbridge 69.6% (70.6%)
*Bexley 69.4% (83.2%)
Waltham Forest 68.4% (71.4%)
*Lewisham 67.4% (76.8%)
*Greenwich 67.2% (77.9%)
*Hillingdon 67.0% (82.0%)
*Lambeth 66.5% (75.9%)
Merton 66.3% (70.5%)
Newham 65.7% (68.9%)
Croydon 65.4% (68.5%)
Barking & Dagenham 65.1% (69.4%)
Wandsworth 64.4% (69.3%)
Barnet 63.8% (71.4%)
Richmond upon Thames 62.7% (71.6%)
Islington 61.0% (62.9%)
*Southwark 61.0% (76.2%)
Haringey 60.4% (63.9%)
*Harrow 59.8% (77.9%)
*Ealing 58.9% (80.6%)
*Hounslow 58.8% (77.4%)
*Brent 57.8% (75.4%)
Enfield 57.8% (65.9%)
Camden 57.7% (63.8%)
Hackney 52.7% (60.0%)
*Hammersmith & Fulham 48.6% (69.2%)
*Westminster 44.6% (65.5%)
*Kensington & Chelsea 44.0% (64.3%)
Six-in-one vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type B, and hepatitis B) at age five
Each list is ordered by the percentage of five-year-olds who received the vaccine, starting with the highest, and reads from left to right: name of local authority; proportion of children vaccinated in 2024/25; proportion of children vaccinated (in brackets) in 2023/24.
*Bromley 91.6% (91.9%)
Sutton 91.6% (92.8%)
*Bexley 91.2% (90.3%)
Havering 91.0% (91.6%)
Richmond upon Thames 90.3% (89.8%)
Kingston upon Thames 89.4% (89.2%)
*Hillingdon 89.2% (87.7%)
Tower Hamlets 89.2% (89.7%)
*Hounslow 88.9% (85.8%)
*Lewisham 88.7% (88.5%)
*Greenwich 88.5% (88.5%)
Waltham Forest 88.0% (87.2%)
Wandsworth 88.0% (88.0%)
Barnet 87.5% (87.8%)
Islington 87.5% (87.8%)
*Lambeth 87.5% (87.9%)
Merton 87.5% (88.2%)
*Southwark 86.8% (88.5%)
*Ealing 86.6% (88.1%)
Redbridge 86.0% (86.5%)
Barking & Dagenham 85.5% (85.6%)
Croydon 85.5% (84.4%)
*Harrow 84.3% (86.2%)
Newham 84.3% (85.0%)
Camden 84.2% (85.5%)
*Brent 83.8% (83.8%)
Enfield 83.6% (84.0%)
Haringey 82.9% (83.5%)
*Kensington & Chelsea 82.0% (83.3%)
*Westminster 81.1% (82.2%)
*Hammersmith & Fulham 80.8% (85.2%)
Hackney 74.4% (78.8%)
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