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COVID-19 and Flu

COVID-19 Autumn Booster 2024

The COVID-19 Autumn Booster vaccination scheme started October 2024. If you are eligible for vaccination, you will have been invited to book an appointment.

Please note we have currently stopped delivering COVID booster vaccines in the surgery. If you missed yours, these are still available to book via local pharmacies or via the NHS online service. Book, change, or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online – NHS

You are eligible for the autumn booster if you are in any of the following groups:

  • Residents in care homes for older adults
  • All adults aged 65 years and over
  • People aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group

Flu Vaccines

You are eligible for the Flu vaccination if you are in any of the following groups:

From 1st September:

  • pregnant women
  • all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024
  • all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 year

From 3rd October

  • Residents in long-stay residential care homes
  • All adults aged 65 years and over
  • People aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
  • Carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
  • Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
  • Frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants

Contact the surgery to book your flu vaccine today.

Date published: 3rd September, 2021
Date last updated: 5th December, 2024