Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 26th January 2021) - 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 is taking to ensure that all vulnerable people are coded correctly by their GP surgery to ensure they receive notification of their covid-19 vaccination appointment in the appropriate priority group.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 9th February 2021

NHS England and NHS Improvement have been communicating regularly with general practitioners (GPs) to remind them of the importance of managing their lists of clinically extremally vulnerable patients. These letters link to information from NHS Digital on how GPs can apply high risk flags on an individual basis which will add patients to the Shielded Patient List, or to remove patients from the list if clinically appropriate. A high risk flag against an individual will prompt vaccination communication so that they are able to book a vaccine through the booking service or to be contacted by their GP in line with the Joint Committee on Vaccine and Immunisation prioritisation list. NHS Digital also runs a weekly search to add individuals automatically to the Shielded Patient List that they can see meet the criteria.

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