Flu Vaccine (Hansard, 1 March 2001)

§ Yvette Cooper

The information requested is in the table.

These figures are based on returns sent by health authorities to the Department and represent data collected to 30 November 2000. Uptake on 1 November in several health authorities was affected by delays in supplies from one manufacturer. Nevertheless the data before 30 November do not reflect the work done by HAs and in primary care to promote uptake.

Percentage
Region/HA	65 and over uptake
Eastern
Bedfordshire	58
Cambridgeshire	64
East and North Hertfordshire	60
Norfolk	64
North Essex	62
South Essex	62
Suffolk	58
West Hertfordshire	56
Total	61
Northern and Yorkshire
Bradford	60
Calderdale and Kirklees	64
County Durham	61
East Riding	64
Gateshead and South Tyneside	63
Leeds	67
Newcastle and North Tyneside	58
North Cumbria	54
North Yorkshire	68
Northumberland	66
Sunderland	64
Tees	62
Wakefield	65
Total	63
South East
Berkshire	61
Buckinghamshire	59
East Kent	59
East Surrey	55
East Sussex, Brighton/Hove	62
Isle of Wight	64
North and Mid Hants	62
Northamptonshire	68
Oxfordshire	65
Portsmouth and South East Hants	66
Southampton and South West Hants	67
West Kent	67
West Surrey	54
West Sussex	49
Total	61
North West
Bury and Rochdale	58
East Lancashire	60
Liverpool	60
Manchester	49
Morecambe Bay	62
North Cheshire	62
North West Lancashire	60
Salford and Trafford	53
Sefton	66
South Cheshire	66
South Lancashire	61
St. Helen's and Knowsley	59
Stockport	60
West Pennine	56
Wigan and Bolton	49
Wirral	60
Total	59

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Percentage
Region/HA	65 and over uptake
London
Barking and Havering	63
Barnet	67
Bexley and Greenwich	60
Brent and Harrow	48
Bromley	62
Camden and Islington	34
Croydon	53
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	52
East London and City	54
Enfield and Haringey	51
Hillingdon	55
Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster	46
Kingston and Richmond	61
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	50
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	59
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	60
Total	55
South and West
Avon	67
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	62
Dorset	62
Gloucestershire	63
North and East Devon	64
Somerset	64
South and West Devon	63
Wiltshire	59
Total	63
Trent
Barnsley	62
Doncaster	65
Leicestershire	54
Lincolnshire	69
North Derbyshire	67
North Nottinghamshire	61
Nottingham	55
Rotherham	68
Sheffield	76
South Derbyshire	67
South Humber	71
Total	64
West Midlands
Birmingham	61
Coventry	64
Dudley	59
Herefordshire	65
North Staffordshire	66
Sandwell	51
62
Solihull	64
South Staffordshire	66
Walsall	54
Warwickshire	66
Wolverhampton	61
Worcester	67
Total	63
England average	61