Advice On Immunisations Routine 10 yearly tetanus boosters are no longer required. However, you will need a booster injection if you have a deep, dirty wound and for travel purposes. You need to have had five tetanus injections in your lifetime. If in doubt please check with the surgery. If you have never had a tetanus injection it is important for you to have a course of three injections. Any woman who may be thinking of having children should consider having a blood test to check that they are still protected against German measles (rubella).