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Shingles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make shingles vaccinations available to all people aged over 65.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Jan 2025
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make shingles vaccinations available to all people aged over 65.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Shingles vaccination was originally routinely offered as part of the national immunisation programme to those aged 70, using the Zostavax vaccine. In 2019, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that the programme should be...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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