22/11/2018 14:13:00
Public Health England have today released the first figures for the 2018/19 flu season showing that 6,785 more frontline healthcare workers received the flu vaccine from 1st September 2018 to 31st October 2018 compared to the same period last year.
So far a total of 444,505 frontline healthcare workers have received their flu vaccination or 46.3 per cent of all eligible healthcare workers in England.
NHS Employers would like to congratulate trusts on the hard work they have put into their flu fighter campaigns to promote the flu vaccine, especially during #jabathon week from 8-12 October when over 11,000 staff were vaccinated.
We would also like to commend the following trusts for achieving the national target of 75 per cent flu vaccination uptake among healthcare workers so early in the season.
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Papworth Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Top performing trusts
Below are details of the top five most improved trusts as compared to last year, as well as, the top three performing acute, mental health, ambulance and community trusts. To view uptake for individual trusts, please see this report from Public health England.
Top five most improved trusts:
| Trust |
Vaccine uptake (%)
18/19
|
Vaccine uptake (%)
17/18
|
Improvement (%) |
| Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
64.8 |
36.2 |
28.6 |
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust |
46.5 |
23.0 |
23.5 |
| London Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
41.0 |
18.0 |
23.0 |
| East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust |
63.2 |
40.9 |
22.3 |
| The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust |
53.7 |
31.8 |
21.9 |
Top three acute trusts:
| Trust |
Vaccine uptake (%)
18/19
|
Vaccine uptake (%)
17/18
|
| St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust |
79.7 |
77.5 |
| Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
76.3 |
69.7 |
| Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
76.2 |
82.4 |
Top three mental health trusts:
| Trust |
Vaccine uptake (%)
18/19
|
Vaccine uptake (%)
17/18
|
| 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
56.2 |
49.1 |
| Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
53.9 |
50.4 |
| Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust |
51.4 |
49.0 |
Top three ambulance trusts:
| Trust |
Vaccine uptake (%)
18/19
|
Vaccine uptake (%)
17/18
|
| East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
54.0 |
54.9 |
| West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
53.7 |
38.9 |
| Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
50.6 |
50.3 |
Top three community trusts:
| Trust |
Vaccine uptake (%)
18/19
|
Vaccine uptake (%)
17/18
|
| Wirral Community NHS Trust |
64.5 |
62.2 |
| Sussex Community NHS Trust |
57.3 |
38.3 |
| Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
56.7 |
44.6 |
For more information about the flu fighter campaign visit our main webpage, or you can get in touch by emailing flufighter@nhsemployers.org, you can also join the #flufighter conversation by following @NHSflufighter on Twitter.