Home Care Services: Coronavirus
(asked on 19th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that all (a) homecare workers working for (i) registered and (ii) unregistered organisations, (b) live-in carers and (c) personal assistant care workers receive an invitation for a covid-19 vaccination at the correct time according to the Government's priorities for the administration of those vaccines.
All frontline healthcare staff who are eligible for seasonal influenza vaccination should be offered COVID-19 vaccination. This includes those working in independent, voluntary and non-standard healthcare settings such as hospices and community-based mental health or addiction services. Care home staff, personal assistants to personal budget holders, domiciliary support workers and day centre workers are included in the definition of social care workers. Also included are those non-clinical ancillary staff at care homes who may have social contact with patients but are not directly involved in patient care.
In order of priority, most people already resident in the United Kingdom will be contacted by their general practitioner to book their vaccine via an online or telephone system. Those in the initial priority groups can also arrange their vaccination appointment by calling 119 or through the national booking system at the following link:
General practitioners are also able to add any additional patients who they feel should have been included in cohorts one to nine to the register for vaccination.