| Heading: |
Shingles: Vaccination |
| Question ID: |
1782640 |
| UIN: |
HL5620 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4130 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
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| Asking Member handle: |
MRitchieSD
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MRitchieSD
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the advice from Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the shingles vaccination programme, published in November 2024, whether expanding the programme (1) to adults aged 80 and over, and (2) to sever |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
The Department will consider this advice when setting the policy on who should be offered shingles vaccinations and update in due course. |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |