Stephen Twigg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Twigg on 2016-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS advised GPs to administer the pandemic influenza vaccine during the 2010-11 winter due to shortages of supply of seasonal influenza vaccine.

Jane Ellison

An estimated 172,260 doses of pandemic flu vaccine were administered from 1 September 2010 to 28 February 2011.

The Department issued a letter from the Chief Medical Officer on 6 January 2011 about seasonal influenza vaccine uptake and supply. It noted that if efforts to source seasonal flu locally had not been successful, then the H1N1 monovalent vaccine Pandemrix could be offered to those eligible for seasonal flu vaccine.