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2024/25 Flu Vaccination Programme
There are some changes to the Flu vaccination programme this year. This will be offered out in 2 groups.
From 1 September 2024, the vaccination will be offered out by the GP practice to:
- 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
Please note - primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) & secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11) will be offered this through the school nursing programme. The GP practice can only offer to these age groups if they are in a clinical risk group, for example, asthmatic, diabetic etc.
From 3 October 2024, the GP practice will offer the vaccination to:
- 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
We will be contacting eligible patients from September 2024 to offer the vaccine.
For more information click - Flu vaccine - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Published on 19th Sep 2024
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine for pregnant women and 75-79 year olds
What is RSV?
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including cough, sore throat, sneezing and runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system. RSV infection is common in young children but is most serious for small babies and for older people
From 1st September 2024, NHS England have introduced a RSV vaccine.
Almost all older adults will have had several RSV infections during their life. A single dose of vaccine will help to boost protection as you reach an age group at highest risk of serious RSV infection.
For pregnant women, the vaccine will be offered on or after they are 28 weeks pregnant.
Published on 19th Sep 2024