Official Statistics

Pre-release access for the weekly national flu and COVID-19 surveillance report

Updated 28 July 2022

Applies to England

Each week, UKHSA publishes a report on influenza, COVID-19 and other respiratory illness on Thursday at 2pm.

The following post holders were given pre-release access prior to release. Statistical staff and those involved in the production and quality assurance of the document are excluded.

Department of Health

  • Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
  • Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Chief Medical Officer’s Private Office
  • Senior Private Secretary to the Chief Medical Officer
  • Private Secretary to the Chief Medical Officer
  • Deputy Chief Medical Officers
  • Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Private Secretary to the Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Director General, Acute Care and Workforce (ACW)
  • Director General, Global and Public Health
  • Director, Emergency and Health Protection
  • Director, Provider, Efficiency and Performance
  • Head of Elective Care
  • Head of Seasonal Flu Policy
  • Minister of State for Health
  • Private Secretary to Minister of State for Health
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care)
  • Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Vaccines and Public Health)
  • Private Office for Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Vaccines and Public Health)
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary
  • Press Office
  • Deputy Head of News
  • Chief Media Relations Officer
  • Senior Media Relations Officers
  • Special Advisers
  • Private Office for DHSC Special Advisers
  • C3 Data Intel Lead
  • Response Lead
  • C3 Incident Director
  • Pharmacist, Medicines Supply Directorate
  • COVID-19 Vaccines Policy Director
  • Deputy Director: COVID-19 Vaccine Communications
  • Deputy Director: Seasonal Flu
  • Policy Officer for Seasonal Flu
  • Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme Manager
  • Deputy Director: Statistics and Data Science and Head of Profession for Statistics
  • DHSC Statistics and Data Science officials
  • Head of Surveillance Data Strategy, Joint Biosecurity Centre
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment
  • Director of COVID-19 Surveillance and Immunity Studies, Joint Biosecurity Centre
  • Senior Policy Advisor: COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment
  • Policy Advisor: COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment

No. 10 Office

  • Health and Social Care lead in No.10 policy unit
  • The PM’s Health and Social Care Special Adviser
  • Private Secretary
  • Special Adviser

Cabinet Office

  • Head of COVID Health analysis
  • Analyst, COVID Health analysis team
  • Director General Analysis, COVID-19 Taskforce

NHS England

  • Chief Commercial Officer and SRO Vaccine Deployment
  • Modelling and Data Lead Vaccine Deployment
  • Medical Director NHS Public Health