AQW 12608/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health whether residents in assisted living accommodation will be prioritised for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 13 January 2021
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Priority
- Tabled
- 13 January 2021
- Answer due by
- 18 January 2021
- Answered
- 20 January 20217 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- Yes
Answer
For assisted-living accommodation where Trusts have assessed the residents to be at similar level of risk as Care Home residents, they will be visited by the Trust’s Mobile Vaccination Teams and offered the COVID-19 vaccine.
For the remaining assisted-living accommodation locations, residents will be invited to receive the vaccine based on their age cohort/individual clinical risk, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
Based on the vaccine that should be available by late January and throughout February, we are confident we will see rapid progress through the first 4 priority groups - care home residents and staff, the over 80s, HSCWs, those aged 70 years and over, as well as those who are clinically extremely vulnerable. Many of the residents of assisted-living accommodation sites will fall into one of these 4 priority groups.