Vaccine Damage Payment

The Vaccine Damage Payment is a provision of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom which provides a substantial payment for people who can show they have suffered Vaccine injury.

This is a statutory scheme. It is not necessary to demonstrate negligence in order to qualify. £3.5m, that is 35 payments of £100,000 each was paid out to patients left disabled by vaccinations between 1997 and 2005.[1]

A freedom of information request has revealed that between 2007/08 to 31 January 2017, there had been 759 claims and 11 awards made.[2]

The person must be severely disabled as a result of vaccination, with disablement must be assessed as at least 60%. The vaccination may not be of the claimant, but could be for the mother if she was vaccinated against one of the diseases in the list while she was pregnant, or the claimant may have been in close physical contact with someone had an oral vaccine against poliomyelitis.

The vaccination must have been for:

The vaccination must also have been before the claimant's 18th birthday unless the vaccination was during an outbreak of disease in the UK or the Isle of Man, or it was against: poliomyelitis, rubella, Meningococcal Group C, human papillomavirus, or pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 (swine flu). The vaccination must have been given in the UK or the Isle of Man, unless you were vaccinated as part of Armed Forces medical treatment. The Department of Health and Social Care conceded in 2018 that the age restriction wrongly excluded adults from the scheme.[3]

References
  1. "£3.5m paid out in vaccine damages". BBC News. 16 March 2005. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  2. Crowe, Dorothy (22 March 2017). "Department of Health UK Freedom of Information response" (PDF). whatdotheyknow.com. Department of Health, G18, Richmond House, 79 , Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS, UK.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. "DHSC admits it was wrong to block vaccine compensation". Health Service Journal. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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