Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who are (a) housebound and (b) unable to travel beyond their community are able to access covid-19 vaccinations.

Local vaccination services mobilise general practice, working together in groups of Primary Care Networks plus large and small community pharmacy sites. These services coordinate and deliver the vaccination to people who are unable to attend a vaccination site, including visiting care homes, the home of housebound individuals and other settings such as residential facilities for people with learning disabilities or autism. Those who are very frail and unable to leave their home, can wait for an invitation from their general practitioner or local vaccination services and either visit somewhere closer to home, or be vaccinated in their own home, should it be appropriate.