Flu vaccinations

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We are inviting all our patients, so please wait until you have been either called or received a text or letter. 

We are inviting all our patients, so please wait until you have been either called or received a text or letter. If you receive a text invite but don't know what to do with it, please either ask a family member/friend to help them or wait as we'll be calling those who haven't responded in due course.

We are inviting patients in order of vulnerability, starting with 75yrs+. 

Cohort Eligibility – Flu

• Those aged 65 years and over.
• Those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, chapter 19 (Influenza)).
• Pregnant women.
• All children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023.
• Primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6).
• 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. This includes 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.

Published: Sep 29, 2023