Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme COVID-19 claim volumes and outcomes - VDPS_24_25_COVID_INITIAL_UPLOAD

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Alert 29 August 2025

Deployment completed.

The follow-up deployment on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal has now been completed. This release addresses outstanding actions from the previous update and delivers improvements as detailed in this news article.

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Field	Value
Data last updated	9 July 2025
Metadata last updated	9 July 2025
Created	9 July 2025
Format	text/csv
Licence	Open Government Licence 3.0 (United Kingdom)

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Column	Title	Type	Description
TO_DATE	The maximum date up to which the data covers	yearmonth	The counts will cover all claims handed over from DWP and all claims received by NHSBSA from 1 November 2021 up to the TO_DATE (format: YYYY-MM).
METRIC	Metric name	string	To protect confidentiality, cells are intentionally left blank where the number of claimants is fewer than five. Cumulative total of claims received Cumulative total of awarded claims Of which are bereaved claimants (awarded) Cumulative total of rejected claims Of which causation due to vaccine not accepted Of which causation due to vaccine accepted but disablement assessed as less than 60% Cumulative total number of invalid claims All live claims Live claims unresolved for greater than 12 months Live claims unresolved for greater than 18 months Live claims unresolved for greater than 24 months Cumulative total of mandatory reversals Live mandatory reversals
COUNT	Count of applications	integer	The count of applications under the specific metric

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme COVID-19 claim volumes and outcomes - March 2025

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