Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 15th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, following vaccination of the key priority groups which the Government has outlined, if he will (a) prioritise people working in emergency call operating centres and (b) publish a timescale for the roll-out of that vaccine to that group of people.


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Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 26th January 2021

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) are the independent experts who advise the Government on which vaccines the United Kingdom should use and provide advice on prioritisation at a population level.  For the first phase, the JCVI has advised that the vaccine be given to care home residents and staff, as well as frontline health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population in order of age and clinical risk factors.

If emergency call operating centre workers are captured in phase one due to their age, or clinical risk factors they will be prioritised. However the Government, as advised by of the JCVI, are not considering vaccinating emergency call operating centre workers as a phase one priority at this stage. Prioritisation decisions for next phase delivery are subject to of the surveillance and monitoring data and information from phase one, as well as further input from independent scientific experts such as the JCVI. Phase two of the roll-out hopes for further reduction in hospitalisation and targeted vaccination of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services.

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