Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 9th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to UK Covid-19 Vaccines Delivery Plan published on 11 January 2021, what the timetable is for the use of the mobile model to deliver the covid-19 vaccine to people experiencing homelessness.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 17th February 2021

The Government is following the independent advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which agrees priority groupings for vaccine. Anyone who is homeless and falls into these groups is eligible for the vaccine and we are working closely with partners to ensure they can access it. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with voluntary community and social enterprise partners, inclusion health providers and others to develop an accessible model for delivery of the vaccine to people from inclusion health populations. As a result of having two vaccines now deployable, we are considering a number of options and will co-design these with partners based on the different local and logistical considerations.

In the immediate period we are asking partners to support their clients and service users to register with a general practice, where they are not already and if they have health conditions that would make them clinically vulnerable/clinically extremely vulnerable that this is recorded to ensure they receive the vaccine in line with the JCVI’s advice on prioritisation. Over the coming weeks we will consider a range of possible delivery models, including mobile models, to ensure all those prioritised in accordance with the JCVI’s advice receive the vaccine at the appropriate time regardless of their circumstance.

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