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Influenza: Vaccination

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 2 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of patients in each group whose health is deemed at risk from seasonal influenza who received their seasonal influenza immunisation for the 2006-07 winter. (131848)

Data collected by the Health Protection Agency for influenza vaccinations for 2006-07 show as follows:

Those under 65 years of age and in a medical risk group:

Percentage

Chronic respiratory disease

41

Chronic heart disease

54

Chronic renal disease

40

Chronic liver disease

32

Immunosuppression

34

Diabetes

69

Those aged 65 years and over—74 per cent.