Shingles: Vaccination
Commons · Question 27289 · Tabled 29 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Chris Coghlan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the eligibility criteria for people over 65 who did not receive the shingles vaccine to allow for retrospective vaccination.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 5 Feb 2025
The shingles vaccination was originally routinely offered as part of the national immunisation programme to those aged 70 years old, using the Zostavax vaccine. In 2019, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that the progr...