26 Oct 2022

Parents of meningitis victim urge Parliament make vaccine free

From Checkpoint, 5:50 pm on 26 October 2022

The parents of a teenager who suddenly died from meningitis have made a heartfelt plea for free access to the vaccine that would have saved their daughter.

Gerard and Claire Rushton appeared before a select committee today, to urge MPs to fund vaccines against the disease that killed their 16-year-old daughter in 2014.

Our political reporter Anneke Smith has more.