Official Statistics

Pre-release access: 2020 to 2021 weekly national flu and COVID-19 surveillance report

Updated 19 August 2021

Each week, PHE 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
  • Private Secretary to the Chief Medical Officer
  • Personal Assistant to the Chief Medical Officer
  • Deputy Chief Medical Officers
  • Chief Communications Officer
  • Deputy Director, NHS Winter Resilience
  • Deputy Director, Patient Access and Flow team
  • Director General, Acute Care and Workforce (ACW)
  • Director General, Global and Public Health
  • Director of Health Protection, Joint Biosecurity Centre
  • Director, Emergency and Health Protection
  • Director, Provider, Efficiency and Performance
  • Head of Elective Care
  • Head of News
  • Joint Head of Flu Policy
  • Minister of State for Health
  • Private Secretary to Minister of State for Health
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation)
  • Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care)
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary
  • Policy Officer and Business Support
  • Press Office
  • Senior Communications Officer, Press Office
  • Special Advisers
  • Strategic Communications COVID-19
  • C3 and Intel Team Leader
  • C3 Data Intel Lead
  • Data and Intel compiler
  • Response Lead
  • C3 Incident Director
  • Pharmacist, Medicines Supply Directorate
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Director
  • Deputy Director: COVID-19 Vaccines Deployment Policy
  • Deputy Director COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment
  • Policy Officer for Seasonal Flu
  • Deputy Director – Statistics and Data Science and Head of Profession for Statistics
  • Director – COVID Vaccine Deployment
  • Lead Analyst – Regional Team, Analysis and Assessment, Joint Biosecurity Centre
  • DHSC Statistics and Data Science
  • Acting Head of Data Analysis, Secretary of State’s Private Office
  • Director of COVID-19 Surveillance and Immunity Studies, Joint Biosecurity Centre

No.10 Office

  • Health and Social Care lead, Number 10 Policy Unit
  • The Prime Minister’s Health and Social Care Special Adviser

Cabinet Office

  • Vaccines team lead, COVID Health Analysis, Analysis and Data Directorate (ADD), C-19 Taskforce
  • Head of COVID Health analysis
  • Analyst, COVID Health analysis team

NHS England

  • Chief Commercial Officer and SRO Vaccine Deployment
  • Modelling and Data Lead Vaccine Deployment