Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 17 January 2025.
Luke Evans
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS staff have been vaccinated for flu (a) this year and (b) at this stage in the flu cycle in each of the last four years.
Andrew Gwynne
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
The UK Health Security Agency publishes monthly official statistics on flu vaccine coverage for frontline healthcare workers. The second monthly report of the 2024 to 2025 season was published on 19 December 2024, covering the period from 1 September to 30 November 2024, and is available at the following link:
Data for the previous seasons is also available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures
The following table shows the percentage of seasonal flu vaccine uptake, the survey response rate, and the number of vaccinated people within those who answered the survey, rounded to the nearest hundred, from 2020/21 to 2024/25:
2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | |
Percentage uptake | 32.2% | 38.5% | 41.8% | 52.5% | 70.6% |
Survey response rate | 79% | 79.8% | 90.4% | 82.3% | 96.1% |
Number of vaccinated survey responders | 333,100 | 386,700 | 461,000 | 486,000 | 750,800 |
Notes:
the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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