Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 3rd December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether health and care professions that can administer medicines, through Patient Group Directions and Independent Prescribing Rights, will be granted rights to assist with the roll out of any covid-19 vaccination programme.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th December 2020

Provisions have been made in The Human Medicines (Coronavirus and Influenza) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 to expand the workforce legally allowed to administer vaccines. This includes expanding the scope of patient group directions to allow for them to be issued for the administration of any medicine, including COVID-19 vaccines and flu vaccines. These regulations came into force on 16 October 2020. Trained independent prescribers are also able to administer vaccines subject to them having the required skill set.

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