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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of catch-up 'MenB' (Bexsero) vaccination in England

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Christensen, H 
Trotter, CL 

Abstract

We assessed the cost-effectiveness of offering catch-up vaccination with Bexsero against meningococcal disease to children too old to receive the vaccine under the recently introduced infant programme. Offering catch-up vaccination to increasingly older children is less economically attractive because of declining disease burden. We estimate catch-up vaccination of 1year old children could be cost-effective, incremental on the infant programme with a vaccine price of ⩽£8 per dose. Extending vaccination to 2year olds could only be cost-effective (incremental on infant and 1year old catch-up) with a vaccine price of ⩽£3 per dose and was not cost-effective in sensitivity analyses with more conservative vaccine assumptions. Extending catch-up further to 3-4year olds was not cost-effective. Employing the current criteria for assessing vaccines, our models suggest that even with low vaccine prices only catch-up vaccination in 1year old children could be cost-effective, when considered incrementally on the infant programme.

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Keywords

catch-up, cost-effectiveness, group B, meningococcal disease, vaccination

Journal Title

Vaccine

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Journal ISSN

0264-410X
1873-2518

Volume Title

35

Publisher

Elsevier
Sponsorship
Public Health England (PHE)
The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Evaluation of Interventions at the University of Bristol in partnership with Public Health England (PHE).