AQW 10513/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether all nursing and care home residents are considered vulnerable for both COVID-19 and seasonal flu; (ii) how many nursing and care home residents have not received a flu vaccination this year; and (iii) what this number is as a percentage of the total nursing home population.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 18 November 2020
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 18 November 2020
- Answer due by
- 3 December 2020
- Answered
- 11 December 202023 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
(i)All nursing and care home residents are considered vulnerable to seasonal flu and COVID-19 and are eligible for vaccination through the public seasonal flu vaccination programme. Nursing and care home residents are currently top of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) interim prioritisation list to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
(ii) This information is not available as the majority of nursing/care home residents are included within other categories including those aged 65 & over and those aged under 65 who are clinically at risk.
(iii) Using the recently published Adult Social Care Statistics at the 30th June 2020, there were 11,808 placements in Care Homes - 8,191 in Nursing Homes and 3,617 in Residential Homes but as stated at (ii), it is not possible to advise on the number of those vaccinated