FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3838
You asked
Please supply the following information on vaccine preventable disease breakthrough cases/vaccination failure events from England and Wales from 1990 until 2020.
Please supply the above information for the following vaccinations:
6-in-1 Vaccine
4-in-1 Vaccine
Rotavirus Vaccine
MenB Vaccine
Hib/MenC Vaccine
MMR Vaccine
Pneumococcal PCV Vaccine
DTP Vaccine
DTaP-IPV Vaccine
HPV Vaccine
MenACWY Vaccine
Please supply:
The total amount of reported breakthrough cases of a vaccine preventable disease in a vaccinated individual, can be partial or fully vaccinated to be included in the value.
The total amount of reported breakthrough cases of a vaccine preventable disease In an unvaccinated individual. This value must only include unvaccinated individuals.
Reported death rates for all the vaccine preventable diseases these listed vaccines are effective against, again for vaccinated and seperately unvaccinated individuals.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We do not hold data on vaccine preventable disease cases or breakthrough cases.
UK Health Security Agency may be better placed to answer this enquiry. They can be contacted on InformationRights@UKHSA.gov.uk or by calling +44 20 7654 8000.
Vaccine preventable disease deaths
We do not hold vaccination records for the vaccines listed in this FOI request. The National Immunisation Management service and NHS Digital may be better placed to answer your enquiry. NHS Digital can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk.
Our NOMIS webservice can provide mortality data not including vaccination status by 5 year age group where the following deaths can be selected by name or ICD-10 code.
Data is available from 2013 to 2020.
- Diphtheria
- Hepatitis B
- Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b)
- Polio
- Tetanus
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
- Rotavirus
- Meningitis B
- Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
- Meningitis C.
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Selected neoplasms --including cervical, mouth, anal, throat.
Please see NOMIS instructions below:
- Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Age -- All ages or 5-year age bands.
- Select Gender -- Total or Male/Female
- Select rates -- All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available).
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
For data from 1990 to 2013, or if NOMIS does not meet your needs, we can create a custom output. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.