Influenza: Vaccination

(asked on 21st July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2020 to Question 64074, how many adult flu vaccines (a) were ordered in 2019 and (b) have been ordered for winter 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 1st September 2020

General practitioners and community pharmacists are directly responsible for ordering flu vaccine from suppliers which are used to deliver the national flu programme to adults.

In 2019/20, around 400,000 doses of adult flu vaccine were procured as a contingency stock. We have ordered additional stock for the 2020/21 season, and information on this will be provided once all the contracts are completed.

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