Influenza: Vaccination
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS staff have been vaccinated for flu (a) this year and (b) at this stage in the flu cycle in each of the last four years.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The UK Health Security Agency publishes monthly official statistics on flu vaccine coverage for frontline healthcare workers. The second monthly report of the 2024 to 2025 season was published on 19 December 2024, covering the period from 1 September to 30 November 2024, and is available at the following link:
Data for the previous seasons is also available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures
The following table shows the percentage of seasonal flu vaccine uptake, the survey response rate, and the number of vaccinated people within those who answered the survey, rounded to the nearest hundred, from 2020/21 to 2024/25:
2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | |
Percentage uptake | 32.2% | 38.5% | 41.8% | 52.5% | 70.6% |
Survey response rate | 79% | 79.8% | 90.4% | 82.3% | 96.1% |
Number of vaccinated survey responders | 333,100 | 386,700 | 461,000 | 486,000 | 750,800 |
Notes:
- the data on the number of vaccinated survey responders is not extrapolated to represent a 100% response rate, as the number of vaccinated people is based on only those who have responded to the survey.
- the data for 2024/25 is not comparable to previous seasons due to this year’s programme starting four weeks later than previous seasons.
the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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