Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this.
According to Dr Chris Streather, who’s Medical Director for the NHS in London, on Channel 4 News last night, NHS England has vaccinated more than 1.8 million for the flu virus1. That answer was in response to a question about vaccine denial.
Both Dorothy and I thought the same – is that all?
Why? We’ve been here before comparing stats from NHS Scotland and NHS England where the latter should be 10 times greater on anything to just be at the same level per head of population.
1.8 million in England might then be around 180 000 in Scotland, but from the Scottish Government yesterday:
New evidence from Public Health Scotland and early evidence from UKHSA shows that this year’s vaccine does a good job of preventing hospital admissions for the strains currently circulating. As of 7 December, over 1.2 million adult flu vaccines have been delivered – over 97,000 more than this point last winter. In addition, more than 470,000 children have had their vaccine, bringing the total number of flu vaccinations delivered this season to over 1.7 million.2
So, it seems, NHS Scotland may be vaccinating for flu at almost 10 times the rate as NHS England.
1.8 million jabs for England’s 58 million and 1.7 million jags for Scotland’s 5.5 million.
Sources:
- https://www.channel4.com/news/flu-effects-would-be-exacerbated-by-unnecessary-doctors-strike-says-nhs-london-medical-director
- https://www.gov.scot/news/resilience-committee-meets-to-discuss-winter-flu/
Dr Streather, given his job, should know what he’s talking about.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I’m not sure whether this site is a joke or is supposed to be taken seriously. However, it took me about 10 seconds to fact check the quoted English statistic and I found it to be wrong by a factor of 10. The number of flu vaccinations carried out in England up to 12 December is over 17.4 million.
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