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Thousands of adults with learning disabilities on GP registers in Dorset will be prioritised for a coronavirus vaccine following new advice from Government advisers. Some adults with severe learning disabilities have already received their first jab or were due to be invited for theirs in the next stage of the rollout in England, but disability campaigners and charities had warned this left many with less severe conditions at risk from the virus. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has said that all adults on the GP learning disability register should be invited for a jab alongside others in priority group six – people aged 16-64 with underlying health conditions. ....
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More people with learning disabilities have been given priority for a Covid-19 vaccination THOUSANDS of adults with learning disabilities on GP registers in Dorset will be prioritised for a coronavirus vaccine following new advice from te government. Some adults with severe learning disabilities have already received their first jab or were due to be invited for theirs in the next stage of the rollout in England, but disability campaigners and charities had warned this left many with less severe conditions at risk from the virus. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation now says all adults on the GP learning disability register should be invited for a jab alongside others in priority group six – people aged 16-64 with underlying health conditions. ....
Carlisle Mencap joined a national campaign calling for the action, prior to the Government decision this week. People with a learning disability are more than six times as likely to die from coronavirus as the general population, but many were not in any of the priority groups that will get a potentially life-saving vaccine Morag Rowell, a team leader with the charity and whose partner’s 27-year-old son has epilepsy and autism, said: “The news this week is absolutely magnificent, not just for my family member, but for the whole country. “But, it was still too long overdue.” Morag was among those who had written a letter to Carlisle MP John Stevenson, in which she expressed her disappointment for the lack of planning on the crisis. ....
Thousands of adults with learning disabilities on GP registers in Gloucestershire will be prioritised for a coronavirus vaccine following new advice… ....