Scotland's maternal programme currently includes the four vaccinations offered during pregnancy.

These are for:

• pertussis (whooping cough)
• respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
• influenza (flu)
• coronavirus (COVID-19)

Receiving these vaccines during pregnancy is the safest way to help protect both pregnant women and their newborn babies from the risk of serious illness, and death, that can be caused by these diseases.

This month, Dr Claire Cameron, Consultant in Public Health at Public Health Scotland has written a blog on Scotland's maternal programme.

It demonstrates how everyone providing clinical care for pregnant women has an important role in highlighting the vaccines recommended during pregnancy, and it includes links to case studies highlighting the lived experience of parents whose children became very unwell with RSV.

Read our blog.