Influenza: Vaccination

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 30 October 2018.

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Photo of Bridget Phillipson Bridget Phillipson Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of aTIV, the recommended flu vaccine for over-65s at (a) GP practices, (b) pharmacies and (c) other health service providers.

Photo of Steve Brine Steve Brine The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

There is not an overall shortage of the adjuvanted trivalent flu (aTIV) for the season. To enable adequate supply of the aTIV to be available in 2018-19, deliveries have had to be phased and this means that patients may need to wait a few weeks to get vaccination. All general practice and pharmacies in the United Kingdom will have the delivery of their orders phased across three months; 40% in September, 20% in October and 40% in November. This is a specific arrangement for 2018-19 to allow effective supply of the vaccine.

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