Influenza: Vaccination
(asked on 6th October 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 Answer of 1 October 2020 to Question 91107 on Influenza: Vaccination, how many additional doses of the seasonal flu vaccine his Department has acquired.
This question was answered on 27th November 2020
Overall, there is sufficient vaccine for over 30 million people to be vaccinated in England this winter.
The Department has agreed to procure over 8 million additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine to ensure more flu vaccines are available from November. This is in addition to the stock that general practitioners and pharmacists have ordered directly from manufacturers.