Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 6th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will designate counsellors and psychotherapists as front line workers for the purposes of covid-19 vaccination priority.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 15th February 2021

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that for phase one of the COVID-19 vaccine programme, the vaccine first be given to care home residents and staff and those over 80 years old, followed by frontline health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population in order of age and clinical risk factors.

Frontline healthcare workers include staff involved in direct patient care who have frequent face-to-face clinical contact with patients and who are directly involved in patient care in either secondary or primary care/community settings. This also includes those working in independent, voluntary and non-standard healthcare settings such as hospices, and community-based mental health or addiction services.

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