Get your free NHS flu vaccination at this pharmacy

 

• The below groups will be eligible for a flu vaccine from 3rd October 2024:

  • those aged 65 years and over (or turning 65 by March 2025)

  • those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups

    • Chronic respiratory disease

    • Chronic heart disease and vascular disease

    • Chronic kidney disease

    • Chronic liver disease

    • Chronic neurological disease 

    • Diabetes and adrenal insufficiency

    • Immunosuppression

    • Asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen

    • Pregnant women

    • Morbid obesity 

  • 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

  • front-line 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 front-line healthcare workers, including both clinical and nonclinical staff who have contact with patients, should be offered a flu vaccine as part of the organisations' policy for the prevention of the transmission of flu to help protect both staff and those that they care for.

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For more information visit: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/flu-influenza-vaccine/

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This free service is funded by NHS England.

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