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1128556

	registered interest
	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

1039026

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	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 current uptake of winter 2018-19's influenza vaccination among those who are eligible for free treatment.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	207188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Influenza vaccine coverage is closely monitored, with publication of weekly and monthly reports throughout the flu season. In addition, Public Health England publishes an annual report on gov.uk in the spring with finalised data on vaccine uptake.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the latest available data on the uptake of the influenza vaccine amongst eligible groups for 2018/19:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Patient Group</p></td><td><p>2018/19 (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged 65 years or older</p></td><td><p>69.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged six months to under 65 years in risk groups (excluding pregnant women without other risk factors)</p></td><td><p>45.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pregnant women (including those in risk groups)</p></td><td><p>43.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged two years old (including those in risk groups)</p></td><td><p>41.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patients aged three years old (including those in risk groups)</p></td><td><p>43.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Weekly vaccine uptake data snapshot for week one (week ending 6 January 2019)</li><li>Data is provisional and from a sample of 97.2% of all automated general practitioner (GP) practices participating in the 2018/19 sentinel GP Flu survey. The data for the two and three year olds is from a sample of 97.4% of all automated GP practices participating in the 2018/19 sentinel Childhood flu GP</li><li>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2018-to-2019-season" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2018-to-2019-season</a></li><li>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2017-to-2018-season" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2017-to-2018-season</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 16:07:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb