Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional steps he plans to take in 2020 to increase the take up of the flu vaccine by at risk people.
Public Health England is developing a marketing campaign to encourage uptake of flu vaccination amongst those who are most at risk of flu. This will be launched ahead of the flu vaccination season, which starts in September each year. Pharmacies and general practices will offer vaccinations to at risk cohorts and, in additional to provision of the vaccine in maternity departments for pregnant women, NHS England and NHS Improvement are putting in to place plans to optimise visits by vaccination teams to other clinical departments within hospital trusts to encourage uptake of the vaccination.
Furthermore, the Annual Flu letter 2020/21 identifies the need for local plans to deliver activities to encourage those in at risk groups to have the vaccine which is available at the following link: