Influenza
Health
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Mark Lancaster (Shadow Minister, International Development; North East Milton Keynes, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department is considering the provision of additional support for general practitioner surgeries in the winter months to assist with (a) administering the swine influenza vaccine and (b) an increase in patients suffering from influenza.
Mike O'Brien (Minister of State (Health Services), Department of Health; North Warwickshire, Labour)
General practices will receive an additional payment of £5.25 for each dose of swine flu vaccine they administer to patients in the clinically at-risk priority groups announced by the Department's chief medical officer on