Flu vaccine 24/25 season

If you are a housebound patient, your vaccine will be administered by PEARL pharmacy, they will contact you directly to arrange this.

Based on the evidence that flu vaccine’s effectiveness can wane over time in adults, the national start date of the vaccine programme for most adults will be the beginning of October.  As flu circulation in children normally precedes that in adults and protection from the vaccine lasts much longer, the priority is to start vaccinating all children in September.

From 1 September 2024 we will be inviting:

• 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 years.

From 3^rd October 2024:

• those aged 65 years and over.
• those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups. 
• those in long-stay residential care homes
• 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

Please wait to be invited, you will be sent a booking link to ensure you book into the correct clinic.  All school age children will be vaccinated at school.