Vaccination: Immunosuppression

(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including the partners of immunocompromised people in the vaccination programme in spring 2023.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 19th April 2023

In February 2023, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) provided advice for the spring 2023 COVID-19 vaccination programme. As a precautionary measure, the JCVI advised a spring booster dose for the most vulnerable in the population, as a proportionate response, those over the age of 75 years, residents in a care home for older adults and those over five years old who are immunosuppressed. These groups were chosen as they continue to be at highest risk of severe COVID-19.

The JCVI advice for the spring 2023 COVID-19 booster vaccination programme is consistent with that for the spring 2022 COVID-19 booster programme which also did not include household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals.

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