Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the focus in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England on care in the community, what steps they are taking to enable pharmacies to administer all adult NHS vaccinations, including for shingles and pneumococcal disease, to support equitable uptake in all communities.

The Department does not currently have plans to enable community pharmacies to administer all adult National Health Service vaccinations. To take forward our commitment in the 10-Year Health Plan to give community pharmacy a bigger role in prevention by expanding their role in vaccine delivery, we are piloting the use of community pharmacy across several routine vaccination programmes including respiratory syncytial virus for older adults.

In addition, the national booking service opened on 1 September 2025, allowing all eligible adults the opportunity to book their seasonal flu and/or COVID-19 vaccination appointments from 1 October 2025.

We will continue to work with NHS England to explore and evaluate opportunities to expand the role of community pharmacy in vaccination delivery where this may support our efforts to improve uptake.