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 vaccination teams attending care homes vaccinate both care home staff and residents by 15 February 2021.

Primary Care Networks are organising for vaccines to be delivered directly to care homes and given on site to residents by teams of general practitioners (GPs), practice nurses, community pharmacists and other trained vaccinators. They will also provide vaccination to care home staff on site where this is possible.

Where it is not possible or appropriate for care home workers to receive their vaccination in the care home, their employer should make arrangements for them to receive a vaccination at another appropriate and accessible vaccination service.

Anyone who has not yet received the vaccination will be visited, including those in care homes that had an outbreak. If a resident has ‘missed’ vaccination, or is new to the home, the registered manager should liaise with their GP to arrange vaccination.