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Written Question
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Thursday 25th April 2024

Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what data they are gathering on countries currently implementing immunisation programmes for infant respiratory syncytial virus regarding (1) acceptance and uptake, and (2) hospitalisations.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The UK Health Security Agency continues to monitor international reporting. In the United States, as of 31 January 2024, maternal immunisation was 17.9%. By February 2024, 43% of infants under eight months old had received a dose of nirsevimab.

In Galicia, Spain, 92.9% of 5,357 infants born between 25 September 2023 and 4 February 2024 had nirsevimab, plus 79.7% of 5,823 in a catch-up programme. The peak of hospitalisation rate in infants under six months old was 102 per 100,000, for season 2023 to 2024 during the week starting 27 November 2023 compared to a median of 776 for seasons 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020, peaking during the first week of January 2024.

In Luxembourg, 84% of 1,524 infants born in hospital between early October and mid-December 2023 received nirsevimab. Luxembourg observed a decrease in hospitalisation in infants under six months old of 69% between the 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 respiratory syncytial virus seasons.

Select Committee
Royal College of Occupational Therapists
 PRT0067 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: and cognition difficulties, attention and hyperactivity disorders, motor difficulties and mental health

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Cepheid UK Ltd
 PRT0064 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: Preterm birth, defined as the delivery of the baby before 37 weeks of gestation, is a worldwide health

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National Child Mortality Database
 PRT0060 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: Variation in care and health inequalities • The ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities seen in relation

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University of Oxford
 PRT0059 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: In particular, I have looked at health and educational outcomes in children born in the UK in the

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Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Excellence Network
 PRT0047 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: in Speech and Language Therapy service provision in neonatal care 2.1 NHS Long Term Plan (National Health

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Sands and Tommy's Joint Policy Unit
 PRT0045 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: before 28 weeks' gestation. oParents of preterm babies are more likely to experience stress and mental health

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Spoons Charity
 PRT0021 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: adjust to life beyond neonatal care and became isolated, which had a huge impact on her mental health

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CLOSER (UCL)
 PRT0023 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: problems (particularly respiratory conditions) in childhood, lower educational achievement and

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The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS), University of Leicester, The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS), University of Leicester, The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS), University of Leicester, The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS), University of Leicester, and The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS), University of Leicester
 PRT0027 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) Professor Lucy Smith: Professor of Perinatal Health