Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans in place to ensure that care home residents can be vaccinated against the flu in a timely manner.

Care homes should make provision, in collaboration with colleagues in primary care, to provide flu vaccination sessions for residents in a timely manner.

Primary care providers are being incentivised to work together across primary care network footprints to pool resources and collaborate to vaccinate more people. This includes the provision into care homes for both residents and staff.