Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect that all vaccinations which were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be completed.

Routine vaccinations delivered in primary care have continued to be delivered as priority services, with the exception of shingles vaccination for those people over 70 who have been shielding. However, if patients are attending their general practitioner practice for other reasons and it is clinically appropriate to offer them the shingles vaccine, they will be given the vaccine. We expect this service to fully recommence shortly, following advice from Public Health England.

Delivery of school-age vaccination programmes has been impacted following the school closures, although programmes are delivered at different times by different providers throughout the academic year. This means there will also be local variation in restoration of the programmes. Some outstanding vaccinations will be delivered by the beginning of the next academic year, and the remainder are expected to be completed by the end of the academic year 2020/21.

All vaccinations will be delivered with appropriate social distancing and infection control procedures to protect the public. Routine immunisations continue to be offered to all eligible patients.