Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that students registered at a term-time GP practice and residing in that location during the covid-19 outbreak will not be encouraged to travel to a different part of the country to receive a covid-19 vaccine.

General practitioners (GPs) will invite their registered patients, including students, for vaccination at the appropriate moment, depending on which cohort the patient is part of. Students can register as a temporary resident at another GP practice, in cases where they intend to be in an area for more than 24 hours but less than three months.

If a student has not moved their GP practice registration to their place of study and has a national invitation letter sent to their home address, they will still be able to book a vaccination at a site local to their place of study. They can enter any postcode on the National Booking System to identify a vaccination centre or community pharmacy providing vaccinations locally.