Health: Screening and Vaccination
(asked on 13th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of offering a health check with annual vaccinations.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The NHS Vaccine Strategy, Shaping the future delivery of NHS vaccination services, published in December 2023, sets out that vaccination is a public health opportunity to integrate the delivery of vaccinations with wider person-centred healthcare services, planned and delivered by neighbourhood teams. It advises integrated care systems (ICSs) to structure the delivery of vaccinations via the neighbourhood teams to maximise uptake of other preventative services, as well as vaccination uptake. There are no plans to make a specific assessment of the potential merits of offering a health check alongside annual vaccinations.