We are now booking RSV, Covid and flu vaccines now

 

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The RSV cannot be given with the Covid or Flu vaccines.

  • However we will be offering Covid/Flu vaccines together at a separate clinic.
  • We will be sending invites out soon, but please do telephone to book one if you would like to and you fit the eligibility criteria.

  • Flu Eligibility

From 1 September 2024

  • pregnant women
  • all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024
  • primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) – to be done at school not the surgery as no payment unless have another condition such as asthma or diabetes
  • secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11) - to be done at school not the surgery as no payment unless have another condition such as asthma or diabetes
  • all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years

From 3 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

All frontline health care workers, including both clinical and non-clinical staff who have contact with patients, should be offered flu vaccine from 3 October as a vital part of the organisations’ policy for the prevention of the transmission of flu.

Social care workers directly working with people clinically vulnerable to flu should also have the flu vaccine provided by their employer. There are circumstances where frontline staff, employed by specific social care providers without access to employer led occupational health schemes can access the vaccine through the NHS free of charge.

Covid eligibility

From 3 October 2024

  • residents in a care home for older adults
  • all adults aged 65 years and over
  • persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group

The JCVI also advises that health and social care service providers may wish to consider whether vaccination provided as an occupational health programme to frontline health and social care workers is appropriate in future years; and that ahead of such considerations, health departments may choose to continue to extend an offer of vaccination to frontline health and social care workers and staff working in care homes for older adults in autumn 2024.
The government has decided that frontline health and social care workers and staff working in care homes for older adults will continue to be offered COVID-19 vaccination in the autumn 2024 programme in England.

RSV eligibility

From 1 September 2024

All adults turning 75 years old on or after 1 September 2024 will be eligible for the routine programme and should be offered a single dose of the RSV vaccine. and as a catch-up programme for all adults aged 75-79 years old on 1st September 2024. They remain eligible up to the day before turning 80 years of age. People turning 80 in the first year of the programme will have until 31 August 2025 to get vaccinated.

Programme for pregnant women to protect infants

All women who are at least 28 weeks pregnant (the eligible cohort) on 1 September 2024, will be offered a single dose of the RSV vaccine. After that, pregnant women will become eligible as they reach 28 weeks gestation and remain eligible up to birth.

Published: Sep 6, 2024