| Heading: |
Shingles: Vaccination |
| Question ID: |
1790925 |
| UIN: |
HL6370 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| 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 what steps they will take towards a decision on the expansion of the shingles national immunisation programme for adult cohorts aged 80 and over, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation in Nove |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-09 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
In November 2024, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation provided advice to the Government on eligibility for the shingles vaccination programme. This included advice that the Government should consider expanding the shingles vaccination offe... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |