Question follow-through · 122980
Meningitis: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the role community pharmacy could play in providing a Meningitis B vaccine catch-up service to students and young people from Yeovil constituency at risk.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the role community pharmacy could play in providing a Meningitis B vaccine catch-up service to students and young people from Yeovil constituency at risk.
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government is looking to expand the number of vaccines offered in community pharmacies across the country through local, targeted vaccination programmes. This has already started, with NHS England commissioning some community pharmacies in the Midland...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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