| Heading: |
Shingles: Vaccination |
| Question ID: |
1759847 |
| UIN: |
27289 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5198 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Chris Coghlan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Coghlan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the eligibility criteria for people over 65 who did not receive the shingles vaccine to allow for retrospective vaccination. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
The shingles vaccination was originally routinely offered as part of the national immunisation programme to those aged 70 years old, using the Zostavax vaccine. In 2019, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that the progr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |