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Evening Standard
Charlie Duffield

Podcast: Chickenpox vaccine to be made available on NHS

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An NHS vaccine for chickenpox will be rolled out in England from January, in the biggest expansion of the childhood immunisation programme for a decade.

It will be offered as part of a new combined MMRV vaccine, for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, by GPs.

Professor Helen Bedford, from the UCL Institute of Child Health joins us with the latest.

And in part two, The Standard’s Culture Writer India Block joins us to discuss pop star Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend.

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