Eligibility
The following cohorts are announced and authorised to be eligible to receive a flu vaccination:
From 1 September 2025:
- pregnant women
- all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025
- all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
- primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
- secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)
- NB: We are not permitted to vaccinate school age children unless they are also with a clinical risk group. These will be co-ordinated by your child’s school. If your child is home schooled, please contact us to book.
From October 2025, exact start date to be confirmed by NHS England in due course:
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.
Clinics
We will be offering clinics to eligible patients throughout October starting on Saturday 4th and for the next two weeks after. Some patients (as above) will be offered theirs in September. Once our stock has arrived, we will commence sending invitations out via text message for online booking. If you do not have a mobile phone and/or do not receive an invitation message but believe you are eligible, please contact us after 22nd September to book and/or for more information.
All of our appointments will be delivered jointly and in combination with the COVID-19 booster vaccine for those patients eligible to receive both.
If you are housebound or reside in a care home, we will contact you/your home to make separate arrangements for a visit to administer any vaccines you are eligible to receive.
Find out more about the Flu vaccine on the NHS website.