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<p>Frontline social care workers should be provided with influenza vaccine by their
employer, with some staff able to access vaccination from their general practitioner
or community pharmacy in a scheme funded by NHS England. Collecting comprehensive
uptake data at a national level would be challenging. Most social care organisations
do not have appropriate systems in place either to deliver influenza vaccine or collect
uptake information and there are a large number of organisations, many independent,
in the sector.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016/17, Public Health England undertook a pilot data
collection in a sample of 320 care homes across England with a response rate of 51%.
70% of responding care homes do not have systems in place to collect data on staff
influenza vaccination. In addition, only 38% of the responding care homes in the study
sample provided data on vaccine uptake despite considerable local follow-up.</p><p>
</p><p>For the 2018/19 season, NHS England is collecting data on the number of social
care workers that access vaccination through the scheme they fund for some staff.</p>
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