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Every year, 2 to 3 million lives are saved across the world through immunisation.

After clean water, vaccines are the greatest public intervention for reducing infectious diseases and deaths.^1,2

It鈥檚 why pharmaceutical companies are constantly researching new vaccines to protect us all.

Keeping people healthy at all stages of life

With the global population of people aged 60 and older growing, vaccination has become a key component of healthy ageing.

In the first five years of the shingles vaccine programme, there have been over 49,000 fewer GP visits and over 1,800 fewer hospitalisations for shingles and its complications, saving the 星空视频 an estimated 拢10.5million.8

The economic impact of vaccination is broad

Vaccination has delivered huge public health benefits for a relatively small investment. The cost of buying vaccines is just 0.3% of the total health budget.听In addition, the return on investment of public health interventions averages around 拢14 for every 拢1 spent.

Without vaccination, 1.6 million school days are missed every year and vaccination helps to prevent loss of productivity through illness and absence from work. 听

6 million working days are lost in the UK due to seasonal flu every year.¹²

Pharmaceutical exports (not just vaccines) are worth more than 拢27 billion. An increase in UK manufacturing capacity for vaccines would provide a significant economic opportunity for the UK.

A healthy society

High uptake is needed to keep infectious diseases under control.

Before the introduction of the childhood pneumococcal vaccination, one child in every 200 in the UK was admitted to hospital for pneumococcal pneumonia during their first five years.

Without vaccination, there are 3,700 hospitalisations in England annually from complications with chickenpox.