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1128556

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date	23/05/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish data on the uptake of influenza vaccinations by social care workers in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	257680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>There is no nationally agreed data set or data collection for recording the immunisation of social care workers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:16:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1045947

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of funding the free influenza vaccine for social care staff.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	211142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Flu vaccination of social care workers is recommended to protect staff, protect vulnerable users and to contribute to resilience of the health and social care system in the winter, including prevention of outbreaks in care homes.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2017, NHS England announced additional funding to support vaccination of frontline social care staff working in residential and care homes and in the community and offering direct care to vulnerable people. The 2017/18 NHS seasonal flu programme offered by general practices and community pharmacy was extended to include frontline social care staff. This was continued in 2018/19 and extended to frontline health and care staff working in the voluntary managed hospice sector. This scheme is intended to complement, not replace, any established occupational health schemes that employers have in place to offer the flu vaccination to their workforce.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/01/2019 17:08:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1045948

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of monitoring influenza vaccination uptake among social care staff.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	211143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <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> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/01/2019 17:19:13 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb