Recommendation 14

Government plans to have offered a first vaccine dose to everyone in the top four priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation by 15 February. This includes: all residents in a care home for older adults and their carers; all those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers; all those 75 years of age and over; and all those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals; and is equivalent to around 12.2 million people.38 In January 2021, the Government announced that it would likely take until spring to offer the first dose of the vaccine to the remaining priority groups, equivalent to around 27 million people in England. It planned to offer a vaccine to the remaining adult population by the autumn.39