Blood Cancer: Coronavirus

(asked on 12th November 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

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

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