PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Vaccination: Hospitals (8 March 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to correspondence from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health to the Rt. hon Member for Tatton on 2 March 2023, on what evidential basis his Department has concluded that its plan for an integrated covid-19 booster and flu vaccination programme will minimise hospital admissions from both viruses.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

COVID-19 and flu vaccination are offered to those most at risk to help protect against serious illness and to reduce hospitalisation. Studies on reduced hospitalisation as a result of vaccination are available at the following links:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1141541/Greenbook-chapter-14a-9March2023.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/influenza-the-green-book-chapter-19

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advice is that co-administration at the same appointment is appropriate where operationally expedient, however, people are advised not to delay either vaccine in order to have them together.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
20 March 2023