https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jcvi-interim-advice-on-a-potential-coronavirus-covid-19-booster-vaccine-programme-for-winter-2021-to-2022/jcvi-interim-advice-potential-covid-19-booster-vaccine-programme-winter-2021-to-2022<\/a><\/p>As stated in the interim advice, adults who are severely immunosuppressed, such as those who have had solid organ transplants, may not respond as well to COVID-19 vaccines. The advice states that those adults who are severely immunosuppressed should be offered COVID-19 booster revaccination at the start of the booster programme. It should be noted that this advice may be subject to change before being finalised.<\/p>
Final decisions on the timing and scope of the vaccine booster\u202fprogramme will be made later in the year, informed by further independent advice from the JCVI.\u202fThe JCVI will review the emerging scientific evidence to inform the Government in our final decision-making process, which includes further data on the durability of protection from vaccines, data supplied by manufacturers and clinical trial data from the Cov-Boost trial on immune responses following a third vaccination. It is anticipated that primary data from the initial stages of this trial will be reported to the JCVI by the end of summer 2021.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the medical needs of recipients of solid organ donations within the covid 19 booster programme; what priority will be given to such recipients in that booster programme; and when the Cov-Boost study, led by University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust will be published; and what the planned timescale is for the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations to publish its decision on the plans for that booster programme.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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Eligible unpaid carers have been invited for vaccination as a part of cohort six of phase one of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. This follows the advice the Joint Committee on Immunisation and Vaccination (JCVI).<\/p>
There is no distinction in NHS England and NHS Improvement\u2019s standard operations procedure (SOP) between eligibility of those who are and are not, in receipt of carers allowance. The SOP is available at the following link:<\/p>
www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2021/03/C1182-sop-covid-19-vaccine-deployment-programme-unpaid-carers-jcvi-priority-cohort-6.pdf<\/a><\/p>The SOP sets out a number of existing sources used by the National Health Service to identify unpaid carers as follows:<\/p>
- Those in receipt of or entitled to a carer\u2019s allowance;<\/p>
- Those known to general practitioners who have a \u2018carer\u2019s flag\u2019 on their primary care record;<\/p>
- Those known to local authorities who are in receipt of support following a carer\u2019s assessment; and<\/p>
- Those known to local carers organisations to be actively receiving care and support.<\/p>
The JCVI\u2019s definition of an unpaid carer has been clarified in Public Health England\u2019s Green Book for COVID-19 as \u201ccarers who are eligible for carer\u2019s allowance, or those who are the sole or primary carer of an elderly or disabled person who is at increased risk of COVID-19 mortality and therefore clinically vulnerable\u201d.<\/p>"}
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