Vaccination: Health Professions
(asked on 4th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase vaccination uptake rates among healthcare professionals.
Frontline healthcare workers are offered flu vaccination by their employer, with a financial incentive for National Health Service trusts to achieve high uptake through a Commissioning for Quality and Innovation target. This can be viewed at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-standard-contract/cquin/
This year, the ambition was that 100% of staff were vaccinated with those who declined were asked to sign an anonymised opt-out form stating the reason. Staff who worked in high risk areas had to confirm their vaccination status to senior management. This winter, provisional flu vaccine uptake data for healthcare workers shows slightly higher uptake than last year and is the highest level since the programme began. This can be viewed at the following link: