Correspondence May. 22 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: The J oint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that eligibility for the
Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) Government should have read the warning signs and acted sooner to tackle vaccine hesitancy and low take-up - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, on the relatively low take-up in minority communities, either the message is not getting through - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) There is no reason why anybody in this country should not take up this very safe vaccine; as he says, - Speech Link
4: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) There is misinformation saying that not to take this vaccination is a safe thing to do. - Speech Link
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
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 14 November 2023 to Question 395 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, what steps she is taking to implement the advice of the JCVI on the rollout of the autumn 2023 booster programme to people who are immunocompromised.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
As recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the autumn 2023 COVID-19 vaccination programme includes all those aged between six months and 64 years old in a clinical risk group, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book. This includes those with immunosuppression.
We continue to work with NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to improve immunosuppressed uptake nationally, by understanding drivers of hesitancy, improving the quality of our published data, ensuring it is easy and convenient book and access vaccinations, and by continuing a variety of campaign activities throughout the winter including UKHSA’s ‘get winter strong’ campaign. This was launched on 1 November 2023 and encourages those eligible, specifically the clinically most vulnerable, who have not yet come forward for the flu and COVID-19 vaccines to do so.
NHS England has produced and shared a range of targeted communications materials encouraging people who are immunosuppressed to take up their offer of a COVID-19 booster vaccine, including posters, display screen visuals and social media cards. There are also materials to raise awareness that those who are a household contact of an immunosuppressed person are also eligible for vaccination. These materials have been translated into 28 languages to reach people from a wide range of communities through their native languages and have helped general practices, vaccination centres, pharmacies, and other sites to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccination this autumn/winter.
The Government’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, also wrote to the main charities representing the clinically most vulnerable patient cohorts, to publicise this autumn’s campaign, and to enable them to signpost the offer to their patient communities.
The autumn campaign remains open and all those who are eligible but who have not yet come forward are encouraged to take up their vaccination.
Mentions:
1: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) sites and to raise awareness of the benefits of vaccination. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wyld (Con - Life peer) How do pregnant women know that this vaccination is available and necessary? - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) against serious diseases that are re-emerging in the country, with an urgent call for action to catch up - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) that makes treatment almost impossible and I am really concerned, as many are, that the public do not take - Speech Link
5: Lord Kakkar (XB - Life peer) To pick up the point of my noble friend Lord Patel, there is a difference in the trajectory with regard - Speech Link
Feb. 07 2024
Source Page: JCVI advises on eligible groups for 2024 spring COVID-19 vaccineFound: The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced its advice to Government for
Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) by GPs, pop-up clinics in schools and vaccine buses targeting communities with low vaccination rates - Speech Link
2: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) most effective way to reach hard-to-reach communities is through faith and community leaders and to take - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) As more cases of measles break out, we are seeing more people come forward to take up the vaccine, because - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) The Minister is right to point out that one reason for the decline in people coming forward to take up - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Manzoor (Con - Life peer) up this vaccination when it is available? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, over the past decade, we have seen the take-up of immunisation decrease. - Speech Link
3: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) This applies to the take-up of a whole range of vaccinations—MMR is another example, as is polio. - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) The 70 to 75 element of the programme has a 74% take- up while the 65-plus element has only a 41% take-up—so - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) We know that vaccine take-up is not uniform across social demographic groups. - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) Knowing that information can help to boost take-up rates, which is what we are looking for. - Speech Link
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements Directions: previous directionsFound: ( catch up programme 65 -69) Shingles Shingrix (2 dose schedule , second dose 6 to 12 months after
Asked by: Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help encourage vaccine uptake for measles in (a) London and (b) England.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is offered as a part of the childhood immunisation schedule, and there are several campaigns underway to increase uptake nationally. These include a targeted National Health Service campaign, launched in July 2023, to contact parents and carers of children aged between one and five years old, who were not fully vaccinated.
We are also launching a follow up campaign targeting unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children aged between six and 11 years old. In London this includes all those unvaccinated and partially vaccinated aged between 11 and 25 years old. Additionally, NHS England is working closely with the UK Health Security Agency and local health partners and communities to understand the needs of their populations and to tailor immunisation programmes to meet the needs of under-vaccinated communities. Efforts include offering alternative vaccination sites, local and national media coverage to raise awareness, and community outreach work to support increased uptake.
The MMR and polio catch-up campaign which was launched in London in May 2023 has resulted in 25,000 MMR vaccines being administered. NHS London has also offered MMR vaccines in nurseries and schools to make it easier for parents to vaccinate their children, and has worked with community and faith leaders to engage these communities and highlight the importance for anyone eligible to take up the vaccination offer.