Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the efficiency of the recruitment process for vaccinators who are already medically qualified and registered.

Secondary legislation enabling more healthcare workers to administer flu and COVID-19 vaccines has been introduced to allow the National Health Service to expand the vaccination workforce.

Former healthcare professionals who are still registered in their profession, including those on the temporary register, are no longer required to complete the full statutory and mandatory training package.

The NHS has so far recruited over 13,000 newly trained vaccinators from NHS Professionals and over 19,000 volunteer vaccinators from St John Ambulance.