Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 23rd November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether hospices will be included within the definition of care home in the interim advice on priority groups for covid-19 vaccination.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The Joint Committee and Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has based its advice on the data it has reviewed from a number of sources including the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England. For the purposes of COVID-19 vaccine prioritisation, the definition of care homes as all care home premises licensed and registered with the Care Quality Commission, applies. This definition does not include hospices.

Hospices are included in the JCVI’s advice as part of their prioritisation of frontline health and social care workers.

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