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Appendix 1: influenza vaccine uptake

Updated 3 July 2023

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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) publishes official statistics on influenza vaccine uptake with provisional data for 2022 to 2023 given below, compared to the final end of season data for the preceding 4 years.

Table 1: Influenza vaccine uptake extracted from GP records (provisional data for 2022 to 2023 and final end of season data between 2021 to 2022 and 2018 to 2019)

GP patient group 2022 to 2023 vaccine uptake [footnote 1] 2021 to 2022 vaccine uptake 2020 to 2021 vaccine uptake 2019 to 2020 vaccine uptake 2018 to 2019 vaccine uptake
Aged 65 years and over 79.9% 82.3% 80.9% 72.4% 72.0%
In clinical risk group 49.1% 52.9% 53.0% 44.9% 48.0%
Pregnant women 35.0% 37.9% 43.6% 43.7% 45.2%
Aged 50 to 64 years not in risk group [footnote 2] 40.6% 45.7% 35.2% N/A N/A
Aged 2 years old 42.3% 48.7% 55.3% 43.4% 43.8%
Aged 3 years old 45.1% 51.4% 58.0% 44.2% 45.9%

Table 2: Influenza vaccine uptake for school-aged children (provisional data for 2022 to 2023 and final end of season data between 2021 to 2022 and 2018 to 2019) [footnote 3]

Eligible school-aged children 2022 to 2023 vaccine uptake (Reception to Year 9) [footnote 1] 2021 to 2022 vaccine uptake (Reception to Year 11) 2020 to 2021 vaccine uptake (Reception to Year 7) 2019 to 2020 vaccine uptake (Reception to Year 6) 2018 to 2019 vaccine uptake (Reception to Year 5)
All eligible groups 51.2% 51.7% 61.7% 60.4% 60.8%
Primary school (Reception to Year 6) 55.9% 57.4% 62.5% 60.4% N/A

Table 3: Influenza vaccine uptake for secondary school-aged children (provisional data for 2022 to 2023 and final end of season data 2021 to 2022 and 2020 to 2021)

School year 2022 to
2023
[footnote 1] 		2021 to 2022 2020 to 2021
Year 7 (11 to 12 years) 43.5% 48.2% 55.5%
Year 8 (12 to 13 years) 39.4% 45.4% N/A
Year 9 (13 to 14 years) 37.5% 42.0% N/A
Year 10 (14 to 15 years) N/A 41.8% N/A
Year 11 (15 to 16 years) N/A 38.7% N/A
All secondary school age (Year 7 to Year 11) 40.2% 43.3% N/A

Table 4: Influenza vaccine uptake for health care workers (provisional data for 2022 to 2023 and final end of season data between 2021 to 2022 and 2018 to 2019) [footnote 4]

2022 to 2023 vaccine uptake [footnote 1] 2021 to 2022 vaccine uptake 2020 to 2021 vaccine uptake 2019 to 2020 vaccine uptake 2018 to 2019 vaccine uptake
Frontline healthcare workers 49.9% 61.4% 76.8% 74.3% 70.3%

  1. Data for 2022 to 2023 is provisional. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Data is not comparable between seasons for 50 to 64 year olds not in an at-risk group as the roll out for this cohort started at different dates over the last 3 years (15 October 2022, 1 September 2021 and 1 December 2020 respectively). ↩

  3. The table gives overall influenza vaccine uptake for all school-aged children each year. It is not directly comparable because the eligible number of school year cohorts varies ↩

  4. Since 2021 to 2022 non-clinical staff have been offered influenza vaccine as well as clinical staff so data for last 2 years (2022 to 2023 and 2021 to 2022) is not directly comparable to previous years. ↩

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