Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 11
Tenth Report - Prevention in health and social care: vaccination
Published 27 Jul 2023
Paragraph 42
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England must lay before Parliament a plan for how they intend to ensure all relevant regulatory and delivery systems are ready to assess and deliver these new innovations to patients. As part of that plan, the JCVI and the MHRA must be adequately resourced and supported, focusing on modelling capability at the JCVI and, at the MHRA, on recruiting and retaining expertise relevant to new innovations, especially in personalised health.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Tenth Report - Prevention in health and social care: vaccination (HC 1764), paragraph 42, 27 July 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 20 October 2023 (deadline 27 September 2023).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government responds to each of the Committee's five recommendations, setting out ongoing work and consultations, and states it is committed to improving vaccination uptake and regaining the UK's position as a global leader in clinical trials.
- On widening the vaccination workforce, the Government says it is "reviewing" the use of unregistered professionals, and a consultation launched on 7 August 2023 (closed 18 September 2023) includes an option for a time limited amendment, covering until April 2026, to regulation 247A.
- On NHS England's vaccination and immunisation delivery strategy, it says "latest thinking" focuses on empowering system leaders to plan local services, and that "the strategy will be published later in 2023".
- On the O'Shaughnessy review of commercial clinical trials, it has welcomed all recommendations "in principle" and "will consider" delivery of all of them, with "an implementation update" to be provided "in the autumn".
- On the JCVI and MHRA, it describes the UK system for reviewing new immunisation products as "effective and responsive" and notes £10 million over two years announced for the MHRA at Spring Budget.