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Dept of Health

Answer

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the take-up rates for flu vaccine were at (a) 1 November and (b) 1 December 2002 for each health authority. [138158] Miss Melanie Johnson: Influenza vaccine uptake rates in those aged 65 years and above for 1 November and 1 December 2002 by strategic health authority are shown in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage uptake Strategic health authority November 2002 December 2002 Birmingham and Black Country 50.8 60.6 Shropshire and Staffordshire 57.1 68.2 West Midlands South Health Authority 57.2 67.2 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 55.0 65.8 Trent 58.7 68.6 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 53.9 64.3 Essex 54 64.7 Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 58.3 68.1 South Yorkshire 57.7 67.3 West Yorkshire 57.6 66.8 North and East Yorkshire and Northern 60.1 69.8 Lincolnshire Northumberland Tyne and Wear 58.7 67.9 County Durham and Tees Valley 55.5 66.0 Greater Manchester 53.8 63.5 Cumbria and Lancashire 53.8 67.0 Cheshire and Merseyside 57.9 67.5 North East London 53.4 61.5 North Central London 45.2 56.6 South East London 46.2 54.1 South West London 50.5 61.8 North West London 47.4 56.6 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 55.5 68.4 Thames Valley 54.9 68.3 Surrey and Sussex 55.4 66.3 Kent and Medway 55.6 65.4 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 54.4 67.3 South West Peninsula 54.8 64.1 Dorset and Somerset 56.5 68.5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

138158; 413 c583-4W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Health authorities Vaccination Take-up Influenza

Contains statistics

Yes

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