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Shingles: Vaccination

Commons · Question 84881 · Tabled 23 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Oct 2025

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Asked by Darren Paffey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for the shingles vaccine, and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the criteria are clearly communicated to (a)

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 30 Oct 2025

From September 2023, the routine shingles vaccination programme changed from the Zostavax vaccine to the two-dose Shingrix vaccine, to better protect individuals from the effects of shingles, provide better clinical outcomes, and reduce pressures on the h...