Influenza: Vaccination
(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment she has made of the levels of flu vaccine uptake between 2022 and 2023.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Monthly data, including data for previous seasons, for general practice patients, school-aged children, and frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures
The following table shows the weekly influenza vaccine uptake between the period of 1 September 2022 to 31 March 2023 and that of 1 September 2023 to 31 March 2024, for children aged two and three years old, people aged 65 years old and over, pregnant women, people aged under 65 years old in clinical risk groups, HCWs, primary school-aged children and secondary school-aged children:
Group | 1 September 2022 to 31 March 2023 | 1 September 2023 to 31 March 2024 |
Children aged two years old | 35.4% | 40.8% |
Children aged three years old | 37.6% | 40.6% |
People aged 65 years old and over | 76.7% | 75.9% |
Pregnant women | 30.5% | 27.7% |
People aged under 65 years old in clinical risk groups | 43.4% | 38.3% |
HCWs | 30.9% | 28.9% |
Primary school-aged children | 21.4% | 25.2% |
Secondary school-aged children | N/A | 15.2% |