Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that accurate records of vaccination status are maintained where individuals receive a first COVID-19 vaccine in one part of the UK and a second vaccine in a different part of the country.

The National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) is used as the national register for COVID-19 vaccinations. At the point a COVID-19 vaccine is given, the vaccinating team record this information onto NIMS and a patient’s general practitioner (GP) record. NIMS sends daily updates to GP systems to update their local record and monitor progress for their patients.

Work is ongoing to transfer data between devolved health administrations to ensure that vaccinations which occur outside of the patient’s ‘home’ nation are delivered to their patient record.