Influenza: Vaccination
(asked on 7th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children aged between two and 18 years old have received the flu vaccination in each region during the 2022-23 winter period.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We do not hold the information in the format requested. Data for two and three year old children is not available in the format requested. However, it is available by local authority, grouped by National Health Service region here available at the following link:
Data for eligible at risk 17 and 18 year olds is not available in the format requested.
The following table shows the percentage vaccine uptake, number registered and number vaccinated in NHS region of all eligible school age children aged four to 16 years old.
NHS Region | Percentage vaccine uptake | Number registered | Number vaccinated |
East of England | 48.3 | 942,745 | 455,731 |
London | 33.2 | 1,164,446 | 387,090 |
Midlands | 43.4 | 1,511,057 | 655,318 |
North East and Yorkshire | 47.1 | 1,147,216 | 540,117 |
North West | 43.6 | 964,475 | 420,346 |
South East | 49.3 | 1,304,640 | 643,553 |
South West | 47.8 | 737,216 | 352,082 |
Source: UK Health Security Agency
Note:
Monthly data was published in February 2023 and includes all vaccinations from 1 September 2022 to 31 January 2023.