Recommendation 17

We asked the Department if communication campaigns had positively impacted vaccine hesitancy among any of these groups. The Department told us that there had been a positive shift in general but conceded that there remained more to do.40 NHS England described a range of targeted approaches that local and national bodies had used to encourage uptake within specific groups. However, it was still not really clear to us that officials knew which approaches had been most successful, nor that they had a clear plan to address pockets of low uptake in future.41 34 UKHSA’s report, COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: week 24, 16 June 2022, pp 20–21 35 RCP0006 Note dated March 2022 from Royal College of Nursing, point 4.11 36 Q 47 37 UKHSA’s report, COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: week 24, 16 June 2022, pp 22–24 38 RCP0009 Note dated March 2022 from Royal Mencap, page 2 39 RCP0009 Note dated March 2022 from Royal Mencap, summary and pp 2–4 40 Q 46 41 Qq 46–47 14 The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine programme in England 2 Future planning for the programme Future vaccine procurement