3,000 people impacted by delay in rolling out shingles vaccine

Manx Care hoping to restart vaccination programme in 2025

Around 3,000 people on the Isle of Man have been impacted by a delay in rolling out the shingles vaccine.

And it’s not yet clear how the vaccine programme – which it’s hoped will be restarted in January next year - will be funded in the long term.

Manx Care stopped providing the vaccination in April last year, after a change in the vaccine recommended, and any leftover stock has now been depleted.

The new vaccine has a significantly higher cost. 

In the House of Keys this week new Health and Social Care Minister Claire Christian was questioned about where the money will come from to pay for the vaccination programme in the future: