Flu Vaccination Programme 2024-25

Flu Vaccines

We will be holding Flu clinics over the next few months and if you are eligible to have it done this winter, we will send you an invitation with a self-book link to book your appointment.

From 1 September 2024:

  • 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 October 2024 (the exact date to be confirmed):

  • those aged 65 years and over
  • those aged from 6 months to less than 65 years of age in a clinical risk group such as those with:
    • Chronic (long-term) respiratory disease, such as asthma (requires continuous or repeated use of inhaled or systemic steroids or with previous exacerbations requiring hospital admission), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or bronchitis
    • Chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
    • Chronic kidney disease at stage 3, 4 or 5 o chronic liver disease
    • Chronic neurological disease, such as Parkinson’s disease or motor neurone disease
    • Learning disability
    • Diabetes
    • Splenic dysfunction or asplenia
    • A weakened immune system due to disease (such as HIV/AIDS) or treatment (such as cancer treatment)
    • Morbid obesity (defined as BMI of 40 and above)
  • 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

Our Flu clinics will be run in both locations, our main site and the new site at Mapleton Crescent so please check carefully when you check-in for your appointment.

For a Covid-19 booster, you can book an appointment on the NHS website at www.nhs.uk/book-covid-booster or by phoning 119, or you can visit a walk-in vaccination site without an appointment, please check www.nhs.uk/vaccine-walk-in.

External websites for further information: