Childhood Vaccinations Committee — hearing of 29 June 2026: transcript & video

00:05 - 02:03

Speaker 3

Welcome to today's meeting. This is the 17th oral evidence session as part of the committee's inquiry into childhood vaccination rates in England. Thank you to Caroline Temmink and Ian Perrin for attending as our witnesses today. The session is open to the public, it will be broadcast live and subsequently accessible on the parliamentary website. A verbatim transcript will be taken of the evidence and that will also be published on the parliamentary website.

A few days after this session, our witnesses will be sent a copy of the transcript to check for accuracy and if there are any changes that need to be made, I would be most grateful if you could advise us of those corrections as quickly as possible. And if after this session you wish to clarify or amplify anything or send us additional material, we would be very grateful to receive it. And when I ask the first question, I'd be grateful if each of you would just briefly introduce yourselves and your role in your organisation, if I may. Thank you very much. So the first question is, how much progress has been made against the 2023 NHS vaccination strategy?

How is progress measured and monitored and what dedicated funding is available for the strategy and how does this compare to the cost saved by routine vaccination? We heard that there isn't any funding and it only got through on a cost-equal basis and we've also heard from somebody who tried to do it that it's very difficult to say how cost-effective the core vaccination programme is. So you may be able to enlighten us, you may know more than we have been able to find out up to this point. Perhaps we could start with you, Caroline.

02:03 - 02:52

Speaker 4

Good afternoon, yeah, I'm Caroline Temmink, I'm the director for vaccination at NHS England responsible for the delivery of vaccination services across England. In terms of progress for the vaccination strategy, we've made a huge amount of progress since we launched the strategy in December 2023. We're now in a position where every integrated care board has a dedicated vaccination lead who's responsible for delivering the vaccination strategy in their area. We've also made huge progress in terms of digital capture and the digital infrastructure. So a lot of that is building on the efforts during COVID and making sure that we can build that into our business as usual processes to take the innovation forward that we saw during the pandemic.

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