Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his definition is of frontline health and social care workers as set out in phase 1 on the Joint Committee on Vaccines prioritisation list.
Frontline healthcare staff includes those staff involved in direct patient care, as well as non-clinical staff in secondary or primary care/community healthcare settings.
The definition of front line social care workers includes those working in long-stay residential and nursing care homes, or other long-stay care facilities where rapid spread is likely to follow introduction of infection and cause high morbidity and mortality,. This definition also includes social care staff directly involved in the care of their patients or clients and others involved directly in delivering social care such that they and vulnerable patients and clients are at increased risk of exposure.