MMR drop in clinic this Saturday

Alongside more targeted efforts to vaccinate and protect those at risk of catching Measles, a drop in MMR clinic will now be held on Saturday 27 April 2013 at the Elizabeth Williams Clinic in Llanelli.

**If you or you child is showing any symptoms of measles, please do not come to the drop in clinic. Stay at home and phone your GP**

Who should attend?

If you or your children live in or are travelling to current outbreak areas or fall into any of the following, please consider coming to our clinics, or going to your GP for an MMR jab:

• Babies and toddlers who have had their first MMR jab, but not yet received the second one at age three years and four months, can have this second vaccination early. A clear month must have passed since the first MMR jab, to ensure the follow-on one is effective. So children before the age of three years four months can have their second MMR jab now, provided their first jab was at least a month ago.
• You are an adult who is unsure whether you have had measles, or your vaccination status; particularly if you are a carer, or work with children, or in health services. (Most people born before 1970 are probably immune, because they are likely to have been exposed to measles.) So adults who are worried that they may not have immunity can consider vaccination.
• During this outbreak, babies can have their MMR earlier than the routine first one usually given at 13 months. However, they must be at least six months old for the vaccine to be effective. So babies aged six months -12 months can have an MMR jab at this clinic.

Directions to the Drop In Clinic:

Elizabeth Williams Clinic, Mill Lane, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire SA15 3SE – please note due to anticipated attendance parking will not be available during the drop in clinic.

• There are three pay and display car parks within a five minute walk – one at the East Gate development, one opposite Llanelli library and at Murray Street multi-storey car park.
• The clinic is located opposite Tinopolis TV Studios, next to Aldi supermarket and sign posted ‘Health Centre’
• Llanelli bus station is located opposite the Elizabeth Williams Clinic
• Llanelli Train Station is around a 20minute walk away (approx.1.2miles)
• Public transport times are available from www.traveline-cymru.info or by calling 0871 200 22 33 (calls cost 10p per minute plus 6p connection fee from a BT land line, other networks may differ and mobiles may be significantly higher).