Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he is having with representatives of providers of covid-19 vaccination hubs on the future use of the systems established for the covid-19 vaccination programme.

We engage regularly with the COVID-19 vaccination programme to discuss its progress and future.

A lessons learned process is ongoing to look at how the systems behind the programme can be used in future. On 1 July, NHS England and NHS Improvement wrote to National Health service organisations setting out COVID-19 vaccination autumn/winter or phase three planning, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2021/07/C1327-covid-19-vaccination-autumn-winter-phase-3-planning.pdf

The letter highlights the delivery model for the potential booster vaccination programme and co-administration with the seasonal influenza vaccination programme. The letter acknowledges that mixed delivery models, with tailoring to community needs in partnership with local authorities, has played a critical role in reaching underserved communities. The letter recommends systems should deploy delivery models which both spread capacity across community pharmacy, vaccination centres and general practice whilst considering the best delivery access for local population requirements, making the most of community pharmacy, pop ups, mobile units and other approaches.