Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 16th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department was informed by the expert advisory group that an extra 1.7 million people would need to be added to the clinically extremely vulnerable list.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 13th April 2021

An expert subgroup of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group was commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer to develop a predictive risk model to enable a more sophisticated approach to clinical risk.

In February 2021, the expert advisory group commissioned NHS Digital to apply the model to medical records of adults in England to identify those at highest risk. Those identified were subsequently added to the Shielded Patient List as a precautionary measure.

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