Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 4
4
Deferred
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Consult on amending regulations to give students and retired staff roles in immunisation.
Recommendation
To ensure that nobody misses out on vital vaccine protection because of practical challenges such as convenient times or locations, a more flexible delivery model, that makes the most of the wide range of healthcare professionals, is needed. We recommend that the Government carries out a consultation on whether to amend the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 to give medical and nursing students, and recently retired staff, a greater role in routine immunisation delivery.
Government Response Summary
The government deflected the recommendation, responding by referencing Lord O’Shaughnessy's review of commercial clinical trials and outlining commitments to improve their speed, instead of addressing a consultation on routine immunisation delivery.
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19
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
The Government has previously welcomed all recommendations from Lord O’Shaughnessy’s review of commercial clinical trials in principle and will consider delivery of all the recommendations. As an immediate first step, the Government has made five headline commitments, published alongside the review and backed by up to £121 million6. These headline commitments will improve the speed of commercial clinical trials in the UK. In addition, we will take forward the foundational actions that will be adopted as part of the Government and the health system’s on-going work to support commercial clinical trials. An implementation update will be provided in the autumn, which will outline progress against these commitments as well as responding in full to the remaining review recommendations.