NHS Vaccination and Screening Directions 2026

The purpose of the NHS Vaccinations and Screening Directions 2026 is to direct NHS England to establish and operate an information system for the collection and analysis of data relating to national screening programme participants in England for purposes beyond direct care and the section 7A services.

This secondary use of data will enable the delivery of those national screening programmes. It will also enable NHS England to meet its obligations in exercising the Secretary of State’s public health functions, as set out in the NHS public health functions agreement established between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England by virtue of section 7A of the National Health Service Act 2006.

Sections 254(1), 254(2)(a),(b), (5)260(2)(d), 261(2)(e) and 304(9), (10) and (12) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (the 2012 Act) and sections 13ZC and 272(7) and (8) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (the 2006 Act). These Directions come into force on the date they were signed.