Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to provide people who have received a covid-19 vaccination with a personal record of that vaccination; and if he will make a statement.

The careful and accurate recording of vaccination status is incredibly important both in terms of ensuring priority cohorts are offered the two doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccination, and to ensure robust surveillance systems are in place to support patient safety. The National Health Service National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) will be used as the national register of COVID-19 vaccinations. At the point that someone receives their COVID-19 vaccine, the vaccinating team will record it and this information will go onto the NIMS system and onto a patient’s general practitioner record.

However, we first need to improve understanding of any potential COVID-19 vaccine in order to fully understand the potential of providing a personal record of vaccination to those who have received it, as part of our future COVID-19 vaccine roll-out-strategy.