Vaccine Damage Payment System (VDPS)

How much?

Please could provide the following information: 1) How many claims have been made to the VDPS due to an adverse reaction to a covid vaccine to date? 2) How many claimants have been notified of an outcome? 3) How many claims have been successful? Please provide a breakdown of which vaccine were used in the claims awarded. 4) How many claims have been rejected / unsuccessful? 5) What are the reasons for claims being rejected (causation, not meeting 60% threshold, ineligible to claim.) Please provide numbers? Please provide a breakdown of which vaccine was used in the claims when causation was accepted. Please give a breakdown of levels of disability being rejected where causation has been accepted, in bands of disabilty level 0-19% 20% to 39%, 40% to 59% 6) Is it possible to give the conditions that have met the criteria e.g VITT, GBS?. 7) How many claims have been waiting over 12 months, 18 months, 24 months for a decision? 8) How many of the successful claims involved a fatality? 9) How many requests for a mandatory reconsideration have been received, how many have received a decision and how many decisions have been reversed resulting in an award? 10) What is the average time a mandatory reconsideration is taking for an outcome? 11) How many appeals to the tribunal have been filed? What are the outcomes? 12) How many claims not involving a Covid vaccine have been received since the NHSBSA took over administering the scheme Nov 21? How many have been awarded, and how many have been rejected on failing the 60% disability criteria?’ How many have been determined? Of those determined how many have been allowed/ refused? Thank you for you assistance. Yours faithfully, Sheila Ward

We call on the Government to review the current Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, as we believe it is not supporting those affected, is inefficient, out-dated, and is compounding harm.

The family of John Cross, former NHS Pharmacist are calling for the urgent reform of the vaccine damage payment scheme. In an interview by reporter Thomas Moore of Sky News, the family stress that the scheme is not fit for purpose and is failing families affected. John sadly took his life after the medical assessors rejected his claim stating that he didn't meet the 60% disablement threshold criteria of the out-dated scheme. UKCVFamily support the Cross family, in a call for urgent reform.In a p

"We've all had our vaccinations. And we continue to since we've lost dad," says John Cross's daughter. "But now you start to question. If a rare, unusual thing were to take place, the system's not got your back. It's not there for you... is it worth the risk?"

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Details of the claims process for a Vaccine Damage Payment.

Thank you for your request for information about the following: ‘Please can you confirm details of the Medical assessors dealing with all claims for the Covid-19 vaccine damage payment scheme VDPS...