A question on #Shingles #Vaccination tabled by Pippa Heylings on 29-11-2024 has been answered by Andrew Gwynne.

Heading: Shingles: Vaccination
Question ID: 1745807
UIN: 17008
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2024-11-29
Asking Member ID: 5078
Asking Member display name: Pippa Heylings
Asking Member handle: pippaheylings
Asking Member Twitter reference: @pippaheylings
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of shingles vaccines for all over 65s.
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Date answered: 2024-12-09
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 1506
Answering Member display name: Andrew Gwynne
Answering Member handle: GwynneMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @GwynneMP
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Answer text: From September 2023, the routine shingles vaccination programme changed from the Zostavax vaccine to the two dose Shingrix vaccine, to better protect individuals from the effects of shingles, provide better clinical outcomes, and reduce pressures on the h...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true