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Dear Sheila Ward,

 

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

 

1) How many claims have been made to the VDPS due to an adverse reaction
to a covid vaccine to date?

2)How many claims have been assessed by a medical assessor to date?

3)How many claims are in the process of being assessed? This meaning they
have been passed to the medical assessor.

4)How many claims have been successful?

5)How many claims have been rejected / unsuccessful?

6)What are the reasons for claims being rejected (causation, not meeting
60% threshold, ineligible to claim.) Please provide numbers?

7) Is it possible to give the conditions that have met the criteria e.g
VITT, GBS?.’

8) How many claims have been waiting over 12 months, 18 months for a
decision?

9) How many of the successful claims involved a fatality?

 

Your request was received on 11^th March 2023 and I am dealing with it
under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

Response

All data is as of 21 March 2023. All data relates to claims received by
the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and those transferred from
the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 1 November 2021. All figures
provided below relate to COVID-19 vaccinations:

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

 

Question 1

4,178 claims have been received by the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
(VDPS).

 

Question 2

1,165 claims have completed medical assessment.

 

Question 3

1,230 claims are currently with an independent medical assessor.

 

Question 4

63 claimants have been notified they are entitled to a Vaccine Damage
Payment.

 

Question 5

1,102 claims have been rejected and a further 56 did not meet the criteria
for medical assessment.

 

Question 6

1,031 claims have been rejected where causation was not accepted, 71
claims have been rejected where causation was accepted but disablement
assessed at less than 60%, and 56 claims have been rejected where the
application was invalid in not meeting the eligibility criteria for the
scheme.

 

Question 7

Conditions of the 63 claims awarded a Vaccine Damage Payment as of 21
March 2023:

 

VITT/Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis:

33

 

Guillain-Barre Syndrome:

14

 

Other (including Bilateral sequential optic neuropathy, Vaccine-induced
vasculitis, Severe bleed on the brain, bacterial pneumonia, immune
response to vaccine, inflammation of lungs, Cause of death - acute
allergic reaction, multiple organ failure, subarachnoid haemorrhage,
pneumonia, death

Multiple blood clots throughout the body, Neuromyelitis optica and
transverse myelitis, Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), Mental
health affected):

16

 

Question 8

512 claims were received more than 12 months ago and have not yet reached
an outcome. Of these 512 claims, 144 claims were received more than 18
months ago and have not yet reached an outcome.

 

Question 9

26 of the claims where an award outcome has been communicated were made on
behalf of someone who has died.

 

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