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1271040

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date	14/12/2020
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	Dentistry: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) NHS general dental practitioners, (b) private general dental practitioners, (c) community dentists and (d) other staff providing dental services will be given priority access to the BioNTech/Pfizer covid-19 vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	129022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that phase one of the COVID-19 vaccination programme should be targeted at reducing mortality, as well as protecting health and social care staff and systems. As a result, vaccines have first been prioritised amongst care home residents and staff, followed by people aged over 80 years old and health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population in order of age and clinical risk factors.</p><p>As set out by the JVCI, dental care staff fall under the second priority cohort during phase one, comprising of health and social care workers. The JCVI’s advice states that this not only includes those working for the NHS, but also those in independent, voluntary, non-standard and community healthcare settings.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 129023 131352 question first answered 21/01/2021 16:59:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1271041

registered interest
date	14/12/2020
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	Dentistry: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for (a) NHS general dental practitioners, (b) private general dental practitioners, (c) community dentists and (d) other staff providing dental services to be vaccinated against covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	129023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that phase one of the COVID-19 vaccination programme should be targeted at reducing mortality, as well as protecting health and social care staff and systems. As a result, vaccines have first been prioritised amongst care home residents and staff, followed by people aged over 80 years old and health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population in order of age and clinical risk factors.</p><p>As set out by the JVCI, dental care staff fall under the second priority cohort during phase one, comprising of health and social care workers. The JCVI’s advice states that this not only includes those working for the NHS, but also those in independent, voluntary, non-standard and community healthcare settings.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 129022 131352 question first answered 21/01/2021 16:59:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1271042

registered interest
date	14/12/2020
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	Dentistry: Coronavirus
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 he has made of the potential merits for (a) public health and (b) patients' ability to access dental services of prioritising (i) dentists and (ii) other staff providing dental services for vaccination against covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	129024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommended that frontline healthcare staff including dentists and other staff providing dental services be vaccinated in priority group two. This advice was on based on their increased personal risk of exposure to infection with COVID-19 and of transmitting that infection to vulnerable patients.</p><p>Vaccinating dental staff also protects public health and enables access to services for patients. Staff were invited for their first vaccine dose before 15 February 2021 and will be have been offered their second dose within 12 weeks of their first.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/04/2021 13:06:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins