Pneumococcal Disease
(asked on 3rd November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in defined at risk groups who were eligible for pneumococcal vaccinations were vaccinated against pneumococcal disease in each of the last five year for which figures are available.
The following tables show the percentage who received the pneumococcal vaccinations (PPV) in that financial year, and the percentage of people 65 years and over who have ever received PPV vaccine.
Percentage of those aged 65 years+ vaccinated against PPV in each of last five years:
Period vaccinated | Percentage of >=65 years received PPV vaccine |
| Period vaccinated | Percentage of >=65 years received PPV vaccine |
From 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 | 4.1% |
| Anytime up to 31 March 2009 | 68.2% |
From 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 | 3.9% |
| Anytime up to 31 March 2010 | 69.4% |
From 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 | 3.8% |
| Anytime up to 31 March 2011 | 70.5% |
From 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 | 3.6% |
| Anytime up to 31 March 2012 | 68.3% |
From 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 | 3.9% |
| Anytime up to 31 March 2013 | 69.1% |
There has only been one survey of pneumococcal vaccine uptake for clinical risk groups under 65 years of age which was undertaken in 2009. The proportion who had received vaccine in the financial year (1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009) was 3.7%. The cumulative vaccine uptake for those in a clinical at risk group aged 2 to 65 years up and until 31 March 2009 (i.e. those who had received pneumococcal vaccine at any time up to that date) was 53.0%.