Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

You asked us:

‘please send updated details for the following re covid vaccines 1 Notified of a payout 2 rejected claims 3 Awaiting medical assessment 4 claims made but rejected under the 60 percent threshold’

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 5 September 2025.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.

Our response

Under Section 21 of the FOIA, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

To view the Section 21 of the FOIA: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

We publish information on claims made to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) on the Open Data Portal (ODP) for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 claims.

To view COVID-19 VDPS claims data on the ODP: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/vdps-covid-19

To view non-COVID-19 VDPS claims data on the ODP: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/vdps-non-covid-19

Additional information about ODP data on VDPS claims:

• ODP data on VDPS claims will be updated in the next quarter of 2025.
• Where there are blank cells, this is where the number of claimants are fewer than five and have been redacted to protect confidentiality.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.