Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement a covid-19 vaccination programme in autumn 2022.

The Government accepted the JCVI’s advice to offer an autumn booster vaccination to residents and staff in a care home for older adults; all adults aged 50 years old and over; those aged five to 49 years old in a clinical risk group or who are household contacts of someone with immunosuppression; frontline health and social care workers; and carers aged 16 years old and over.

The National Health Service is working with providers to plan for the autumn campaign to establish a network of sites which are accessible to local populations. On 22 June, NHS England wrote systems setting out plans for COVID-19 and routine vaccination, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2022/06/C1666-next-steps-for-covid-19-vaccination-22-06-22.pdf

Further information on the delivery of the programme, including details on the invitations for patient cohorts, will be available in due course.