Flu Vaccination and Blood Test Cancellations Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Flu Vaccination and Blood Test Cancellations

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts
Tuesday 14th September 2021

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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My Lords, it is not my understanding that appointments have been cancelled. If the noble Lord has any anecdotes, reports or evidence of that, I would be very grateful if he could send me that material. Seqirus, the company concerned, brings its vaccines in from overseas.

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Portrait Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)
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I remind the House of my interest, in working with the Dispensing Doctors’ Association. If my noble friend reads the BMA website for 4 September, he will see that it reports numerous cancellations of appointments for meticulously planned routine flu vaccinations. Obviously, that has caused great disruption. Will he undertake to treat this matter with the utmost urgency, to ensure that GP practices are not left to face the music, and that the Government will do their utmost to roll out the vaccine programme?