Influenza: Vaccination
(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which providers are involved in the pilot programmes to extend the seasonal influenza vaccination to school-age children; how each provider is remunerated; in which area each operates; and if he will make a statement.
The extension of the seasonal flu vaccine programme to school-age children is in its second year of pilots. The pilots have been set up to gather learning to inform the national rollout in 2015-16 to children of primary school age, aged 4-6. The National Health Service England Area Teams with pilot sites and their method for delivering the programme being tested is included in the following table:
Pilot Area Team | Model being tested |
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear | Cumbria: non-school based – pharmacies |
Greater Manchester | A mix: existing providers in some localities |
Lancashire | School based |
North Yorkshire and Humber | School based through existing providers |
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw | School based through existing providers |
West Yorkshire | School based through existing providers |
Arden, Herefordshire and Worcestershire | Modified Enhanced Service via general |
Birmingham, Solihull and The Black Country | School based through existing providers |
East Anglia | Mainly school based |
Essex | All school based but using a mix of school |
Leicestershire and Lincolnshire | School based through existing providers |
Shropshire and Staffordshire | School based through existing providers in |
London | School based, year 7s only in Havering; |
The commissioning of the school-age flu programme is the responsibility of NHS England’s Area Teams and information on providers and contractual information is not held centrally but determined locally.