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 18 June 2020 to Question 40578, how many people who are on the shielding list and defined as clinically extremely vulnerable with blood cancer are aged (a) 80 and over (b) between 75 and 79 (c) between 70 and 74 (d) between 65 and 69, (e) between 60 and 64 and (f) 59 or younger.
The following table shows a count of patients that are classified as being on the Shielded Patient List (SPL) in England with a blood cancer disease group by age band, as at 3 December 2020.
Age Band | Patients on the SPL |
80 years old and over | 35,298 |
75-79 years old | 25,773 |
70-74 years old | 29,676 |
65-69 years old | 22,680 |
60-64 years old | 19,084 |
59 years old or younger | 55,362 |