More Vic parents now vaccinating babies

There has been a "strong uptake" of whooping cough vaccines by parents of newborns in Victoria since Labor made the vaccine free again, a parliamentary committee has heard.

The parliamentary accounts and estimates committee heard on Thursday that since funding for the whooping cough vaccine was reintroduced by Daniel Andrews' government in June 2015, 9000 vaccines have been administered every month.

The former Liberal government stopped funding for the vaccine in 2012, which had been free for parents and carers of newborn babies since 2009.