Asked by: Andrea Leadsom (Conservative - South Northamptonshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the covid-19 vaccination programme, whether GPs may invite adults for their second vaccination from six weeks after the first vaccination once all other adults in a local area have been offered their first vaccination in the event that GPs have a local surplus of vaccines.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
All adults are now eligible for their first dose. Currently, all adults aged 40 years old and over and those in phase one priority groups are offered a second dose within eight weeks of the first. Adults aged 18 to 39 years old not in a phase one priority group are offered a dose within 12 weeks of the first. Where a general practitioner has no patients available on their reserve list eligible for their first or second dose within the recommended timeframe and the doses would be wasted, they are able to administer a second dose ahead of the eight week interval.
Asked by: Andrea Leadsom (Conservative - South Northamptonshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve his Department's response times to correspondence from members of the public.
Answered by Edward Argar
In April 2021, the Department’s central correspondence unit replied to 90.1% of correspondence from members of the public within 18 working days of receipt, achieving its target.