National Immunisation Coverage for New Zealand up to Dec 2019 This is a series of graphs summarising trends in immunisation coverage based in data provided by the Ministry of Health (http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-wellness/immunisation/immunisation-coverage/national-and-dhb-immunisation-data). They show what proportion of New Zealand children, reported as a percent, are fully immunised at 6 months, 8 months, 2 years and 5 years. There are also separate graphs showing proportions of children immunised for different ethnicities and different levels of deprivation. This quarter’s immunisation coverage data shows a pleasing reversal of the declining trend. With increases for most groups, by age, by ethnicity and by deprivation, compared to December 2018 – in the absence of any other information or more detailed analysis I’m going the put this down as the “Measles” effect which is a combination of an increase in health seeking behavior motivated by the outbreak and an increased focus on vaccination in mainstream and social media as a result of the outbreak. Disparity by ethnicity and deprivation is still an overriding concern. With the disparity by ethnicity persisting through to 5 years of age. Fortunately, the disparity by deprivation has narrowed for most children who have reached school age.