Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the covid-19 vaccine rollout to staff in the Ambulance Service; and whether such staff are able to receive that vaccine in the hospitals they are delivering their patients to.

No specific assessment has been made.

However, staff in the ambulance service who are deemed to be front line healthcare workers have been offered their first vaccine as part of priority cohort 2. The National Health Service met its target of offering all staff in priority groups one to four their first vaccine before its 15 February.

When invited for their vaccine, ambulance staff would have had various options for the location and time most convenient for them which may have included the hospitals they are delivering their patients to.