Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether staff working in (a) neurological care centres and (b) other specialist care homes will be prioritised for covid-19 vaccination.
The COVID-19 vaccination programme is based on the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The JCVI is an independent expert advisory committee to the Government.
For the first phase, the JVCI have advised that the vaccine be given to care home residents and staff, followed by frontline health and social care workers, including hospice staff and staff working in neurological and other specialist care homes, then to the rest of the population in order of age and clinical risk factors, including underlying health conditions.