Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 9121

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

Tabled: 15 October 2024
Answered: 21 October 2024

Question

Sir Edward Leigh

ConservativeGainsborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of age-based eligibility criteria for the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine.

Answer

In June 2023, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) suggested an initial respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) programme to potentially vaccinate a cohort aged from 75 to 79 years old, and then for those turning 75 years old in subsequent...

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