Influenza: Health and Social Services

(asked on 9th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has put in place to encourage the uptake of influenza vaccinations among the health and adult social care workforce in advance of the winter flu season; and if he will make a statement.


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

The Department, NHS England and NHS Improvement, and Public Health England (PHE) are working with, professional bodies and royal colleges, regulators, trade unions and key social care organisations to support staff to access the flu vaccination.

PHE is running a communications campaign for health and social care workers and providing materials to support local campaigns promoting the flu vaccination to health and social care workers. The campaign promotes the protective benefit of the flu vaccination for themselves, their family and the people they care for. In addition, the Department will be publishing new guidance to encourage social care workers to have the flu vaccine.

The Department has procured additional flu vaccine doses, which will support likely increased demand across the country, including from health and social care staff.

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