{"id":1202,"date":"2024-01-22T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-on-good-morning-britain-support-for-national-vaccine-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:58:10","slug":"dauk-on-good-morning-britain-support-for-national-vaccine-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-on-good-morning-britain-support-for-national-vaccine-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK on Good Morning Britain: Support for national vaccine campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"9317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Dr-Steve-Taylor-measles-vaccine-GMB-1-1024x580.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9317\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our spokesperson Dr Steve Taylor was on Good Morning Britain to talk about a new drive to encourage uptake of the MMR jab<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has supported a national campaign to boost the uptake of the MMR vaccine following a rise in cases of measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS England is urging parents and carers to book children in for their missed measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in a drive to protect children from becoming seriously unwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our spokesperson Dr Steve Taylor, a GP in the north west of England, was interviewed on national television today about the importance of being vaccinated against measles and where people can get immunised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to ITV1\u2019s Good Morning Britain, Dr Taylor said: \u201cI\u2019m old enough to remember when it was quite a serious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, and since then we\u2019ve hardly seen measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMeasles is a horrible condition. It\u2019s a horrible illness to have as a child, and sometimes it\u2019s really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Taylor said that people whop have not been vaccinated should contact their GP to arrange an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to do,\u201d Dr Taylor added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/65f50b65-6861-40f3-a6cf-6c734b586b55.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our spokesperson Dr Steve Taylor was on Good Morning Britain to talk about a new drive to encourage uptake of the MMR jab The Doctors\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58],"tags":[38,435,315],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-practice","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-dauk-news","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}