Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will upgrade the NHS App so that people who participated in the Novavax trial and who have subsequently been vaccinated by a NICE approved covid-19 vaccine are able to demonstrate their updated vaccination status.
Clinical trial participants can obtain a NHS COVID Pass through the NHS App or NHS.UK based on their vaccine status where data has been uploaded to the national immunisation database by their trial sites or an exempt status where they remain on a blinded trial.
The ‘travel’ functionality within NHS COVID Pass shows the first and last vaccine dose an individual has received, with a maximum of two doses. The NHS COVID Pass of Novavax participants will display their first dose as Novavax and their second dose as the additional vaccination, which may not be accepted for international travel. A review is being conducted to determine whether and how these additional vaccination doses could be evidenced within the NHS COVID Pass.