Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 3 December 2018.

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Photo of Jon Ashworth Jon Ashworth Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October to Question 180205 on Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination, whether his Department will make the modelling paper available to stakeholders ahead of (a) any decision on a change to the pneumococcal vaccination schedule and (b) ahead of its publication in a peer reviewed journal.

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

The modelling prepared by Public Health England which supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommendation to move to a 1+1 schedule for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine has been submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal, and will be published in due course.

There are no plans to share the paper with stakeholders ahead of publication.

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