Hepatitis: Vaccination
(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to ensure that everyone who tests negative for hepatitis B but possesses risk factors are offered a vaccination for that virus.
This question was answered on 24th April 2017
The United Kingdom has a selective immunisation policy for hepatitis B which targets people at risk of hepatitis B. Recommendations for vaccination are outlined in Chapter 18 of the Green Book: Immmunisation against Infectious Disease, available to view here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immunisation-against-infectious-disease-the-green-book