We are now taking bookings for our flu and covid vaccinations.

The programme this year starts for eligible children aged 2- 3 years on 1st September 2025.

Adults who are eligible for the flu vaccine can access an NHS vaccination from 1st October 2025.

Covid vaccinations (75 years and over) are also available from the surgery from 1st October 2025.

Eligibility for flu vaccination remains inline with previous years:

those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups;
pregnant women;
those aged 65 years and over;
carers
household contacts of immunocompromised individuals;
housebound patient
those living in long-stay residential care homes or nursing homes and social care facilities;
frontline workers in social care settings employed by the following
types of social care providers without employer led occupational
health schemes:
(a) registered residential care or nursing home;
(b) registered domiciliary care provider;
(c) a voluntary managed hospice provider; or
(d) Direct Payment (personal budgets) and/or Personal Health
Budgets, such as Personal Assistants; and
frontline patient-facing staff working in general practice; and
locum GPs, which is a cohort additional to those set out in the Flu
Letter.

Eligibility for Covid vaccinations

For autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will be offered to:

adults aged 75 years and over
residents in care homes for older adults
individuals who are immunosuppressed aged 6 months and over

This represents a change from the autumn 2024 programme, which also included adults aged 65 to 74 and all those aged 6 months and over in a clinical risk group.