Coronavirus: Vaccination
(asked on 8th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2020 to Question 124263, on Coronavirus: Vaccination, what dataset his Department is using to identify unpaid carers in order to offer them a covid-19 vaccination.
The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for unpaid carers was published on 8 March. It outlines the numbers of existing sources that will be drawn from to identify unpaid carers. They are:
- those in receipt of or entitled to a carer’s allowance;
- those known to GPs who have a ‘carer’s flag’ on their primary care record;
- those known to Local Authorities who are in receipt of support following a carer’s assessment; and
- those known to local carers organisations to be actively receiving care and support.
The SOP is available at the following link: