Vaccination
(asked on 2nd May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of access to health services on vaccination coverage in England.
The service delivery factors affecting vaccination coverage in the UK have been reviewed and most recently updated for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2017. This is available to view at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/PH21
NICE therefore recommends the use of call/recall as one of their quality standards to improve uptake in children. Further information is available at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs145
NICE is currently consulting on the scope for a further review. Further information on this consultation is available to view at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10139.
The National Institute of Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in immunisation have also conducted a process evaluation of how the routine vaccination programme is implemented at general practitioner practices in England. This study concluded that greater capacity, as measured by appointments per patient, may be associated with higher coverage in children. The full paper is available to view at the following link: