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DOSE: The UK vaccine schedule recommends that babies are offered 2 doses of pneumococcal vaccine, at 12 weeks and at 1 year of age. Additional PCV13 may be indicated for some risk groups. PROTECTION: Lifelong, except if no spleen, splenic dysfunction or chronic renal disease in which case 5 years. AVOID IF: Allergic to vaccine or its constituents. Give one month apart from the Shingles vaccine.