Vaccination: Children

(asked on 2nd September 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 11 August 2020 to Question 66150, what the timescale is for ensuring that all children receive vaccinations for missed immunisation during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st September 2020

Public Health England and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with regional commissioners to ensure routine childhood immunisations continue to be delivered in primary care settings.

Programmes delivered through schools have been rescheduled as schools re-open. School-age vaccination programmes are delivered at different times by different providers throughout the academic year, and so local variation will be seen in restoration. Some of the outstanding vaccinations have already been delivered before the beginning of this academic year (2020/21), and the remainder are expected to be completed by the end of the academic year.

The Government’s COVID-19 Action Plan has stated that everyone should ensure that they and their family’s vaccinations are up-to-date. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan/coronavirus-action-plan-a-guide-to-what-you-can-expect-across-the-uk

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