Influenza: Vaccination
(asked on 6th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS staff have received the flu vaccination in (a) 2022 and (b) each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of frontline National Health Service healthcare workers (HCWs) vaccinated with the flu vaccine, for each of the last five years.
| Number of HCWs with direct patient care where vaccination data has been provided | Numbers vaccinated | Percentage vaccine uptake |
1 September 2022 to 30 November 2022 | 1,105,078 | 461,803 | 41.8% |
1 September 2021 to 28 February 2022 | 813,435 | 492,125 | 60.5% |
1 September 2020 to 28 February 2021 | 1,124,370 | 863,792 | 76.8% |
1 September 2019 to 28 February 2020 | 1,040,360 | 772,872 | 74.3% |
1 September 2018 to 28 February 2019 | 1,051,851 | 739,187 | 70.3% |
1 September 2017 to 28 February 2018 | 1,025,547 | 704,242 | 68.7% |
Source:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-influenza-and-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-in-frontline-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2022-to-2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-and-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-in-frontline-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2021-to-2022
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2020-to-2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2019-to-2020
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2018-to-2019
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake-in-healthcare-workers-monthly-data-2017-to-2018
Notes:
- All data is final end of season data apart from the 2022 to 2023 season.
- This data is provisional monthly data (published on 22 December 2022) and may vary slightly following further data validation checks.
- The 2022 to 2023 season includes independent sector health care providers. In previous seasons this data was reported as part of general practitioner data returns rather than as part of NHS Trusts in England.