MPs to examine role of new vaccines to prevent ill-health
13 April 2023
MPs will examine the role of vaccination in preventative healthcare, hearing from two leading pharmaceutical companies including Moderna which last week gave details of the development of personalised cancer vaccines.
- Evidence session information
- Watch live on parliament.tv
- Inquiry: Prevention in health and social care
Vaccination is the first of ten themes identified in the Committee’s major new inquiry into prevention in health and social care, with the remaining topics to be announced in due course.
The session is likely to consider falling immunisation rates for childhood vaccinations and what could be learnt from the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
Also on the agenda, the risks that some diseases previously regarded as eliminated in the UK could join measles with that status now lost.
Further information
- In the first stage of the inquiry, researchers and organisations involved in preventative healthcare were invited to suggest topics for consideration.
- Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty outlined key priorities for the prevention of ill-health and the scope for greater benefits to be achieved at its first hearing in February.
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