§ Sandra GidleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the take-up rates for flu vaccine were at(a) 1 November and (b) 1 December 2002 for each health authority. [138158]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonInfluenza vaccine uptake rates in those aged 65 years and above for 1 November and 1 December 2002 by strategic health authority are shown in the following table.
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Percentage uptake Strategic health authority November 2002 December 2002 Birmingham and Black Country 50.8 60.6 Shropshire and Staffordshire 57.1 68.2 West Midlands South Health Authority 57.2 67.2 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 55.0 65.8 Trent 58.7 68.6 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 53.9 64.3 Essex 54 64.7 Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 58.3 68.1 South Yorkshire 57.7 67.3 West Yorkshire 57.6 66.8 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 60.1 69.8 Northumberland Tyne and Wear 58.7 67.9 County Durham and Tees Valley 55.5 66.0 Greater Manchester 53.8 63.5 Cumbria and Lancashire 53.8 67.0 Cheshire and Merseyside 57.9 67.5 North East London 53.4 61.5
Percentage uptake Strategic health authority November 2002 December 2002 North Central London 45.2 56.6 South East London 46.2 54.1 South West London 50.5 61.8 North West London 47.4 56.6 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 55.5 68.4 Thames Valley 54.9 68.3 Surrey and Sussex 55.4 66.3 Kent and Medway 55.6 65.4 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 54.4 67.3 South West Peninsula 54.8 64.1 Dorset and Somerset 56.5 68.5
§ Mr. HepburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people aged 65 years or over have been immunised against influenza in(a) South Tyneside, (b) Tyne and Wear, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. [133215]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonMonitoring of influenza vaccinations given to those aged 65 and over started in 2000. The number of people receiving flu vaccine since 2000 are shown in the table.
Health Authority/Primary Care Trust Number of people immunised 2000–01 Gateshead and South Tyneside1 42,093 Tyne and Wear2 128,644 North East3 157,190 England4 4,965,370 2001–02 Gateshead and South Tyneside1 43,082 Tyne and Wear2 124,226 North East3 162,909 England4 5,113,036 2002–03 South Tyneside 19,480 Tyne and Wear3 128,521 Northumberland Tyne and Wear Strategic Health Authority4 167,742 England5 5,487,645 1Data recorded by Health Authority only until 2002, when they became primary care trusts (PCTs). Gateshead and South Tyneside were one health authority (HA) in 2000–01 and 2001–02. 2Tyne and Wear not recorded as a HA or PCT. We have therefore used current strategic health authority (SHA)/PCT data to record Tyne and Wear as the following Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland Teaching PCT. 3 North East data based on current SHA/PCT breakdown (see next point). 4 PCTs covered by Northumberland Tyne and Wear SHA are Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland Teaching PCT and Northumberland. We have therefore used the same PCTs to provide the North East figure for 2000–01 and 2001–02. 5 Devolved territories record their own information on flu uptake.