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All People with Learning Disabilities Prioritised for Covid Vaccinations

All People with Learning Disabilities Prioritised for Covid Vaccinations

The Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations has confirmed that everyone with a learning disability will now be prioritised for vaccination under group 6.

Vaccination priority group six had previously only included people with ‘severe’ or ‘profound’ learning disabilities. The announcement on 24 February now means that everyone with learning disabilities is covered.

If you qualify you need to be on your GP’s learning disability register to make sure you are offered the vaccination in group 6.

GPs have been advised by the JVCI “to reach out in the community to identify others also severely affected by a learning disability but who may not yet be registered” .

If you are not on the learning disability register and should be, then please give your GP surgery a week to get in touch.

After a week you should contact your GP and specifically ask: “For the doctor to add you to the learning disability register, and how they will confirm their decision to you.”

If you have any difficulties after a few days please contact us at Disability Sheffield on 0114 253 6750 or email info@disabilitysheffield.org.uk so we can give you any additional information.

Mencap has easy read guides to the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, including how to join your GP’s learning disability register to make sure you are offered it in group 6.

You can view the guides here.

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