Influenza: Vaccination

Mr. Lansley
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.

Caroline Flint
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:

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|                           |Percentage|
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|Chronic respiratory disease|41        |
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|Chronic heart disease      |54        |
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|Chronic renal disease      |40        |
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|Chronic liver disease      |32        |
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|Immunosuppression          |34        |
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|Diabetes                   |69        |
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Those aged 65 years and over—74 per cent.