Influenza: Vaccination

(asked on 4th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that an adequate supply of the flu vaccine is available so that vulnerable and elderly people are able to access that vaccination; and if he will issue guidance to vulnerable and elderly people on that matter.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

General practitioners and community pharmacists are responsible for ordering flu vaccine from suppliers which are used to deliver the national flu programme to adults, with deliveries phased through the season. The Department has procured additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine to ensure more flu vaccines are available this winter. Overall, there is sufficient vaccine for more than 30 million people to be vaccinated in England this winter.

Delivery of the flu vaccine programme has begun, with priority given to those who are most at risk from the effects of flu. This includes those with underlying health conditions and those aged 65 years and over.

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