Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the independent report entitled Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunisation programme: JCVI advice, 7 June 2023, published on 22 June 2023, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of RSV vaccination programmes on the number of (a) GP appointments and (b) hospitalisations.

Policy options based on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice on a potentially expanded respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme are being developed. This includes consideration of the impact of RSV on health services.