Influenza: Vaccination

(asked on 10th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doses of influenza vaccine his Department purchased in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd February 2021

The Department has procured over eight million additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine this season, so that we can increase uptake in existing groups and extend the programme to all those over 50 years and household contacts of those who are on the National Health Service Shielding Patient list.

In 2019, the Department centrally procured 400,000 flu vaccines, in addition to those ordered locally by general practitioners and pharmacies, to provide security to vaccine supply chains.

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