Seasonal Vaccinations 2025/2026
Support your GP Practice
We ask our patients to support the practice by having their Flu vaccinations at the GP practice. Practices as well as other providers are funded to provide these vaccinations, we recycle this income to increase the number of staff we employ to provide care to our patients throughout the year. Without these funds and due to the continuing decline in the funding within the NHS pressure on services will continue to build.
So, support your practice and book your vaccination appointment with your own GP.
Flu & Covid Vaccinations 2025/26
We are now booking Flu and Covid vaccinations in for clinics in 2025/26 Seasonal Vaccine season.
We will only be booking covid vaccinations for eligible patients aged over 18 years old.
If you are eligible for both covid and flu, we reccommend to get your Flu and Covid vaccination at the same time. This means you only have to make one trip to the surgery.
COVID-19 vaccination - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Flu vaccine - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Eligibility for the Flu Vaccine 2025/26
- Pregnant women – from mid-September
- All Children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025 - from mid-September
- All children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years - from 1st October
- Those aged 65 years and over – from 1st October
- Those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, Influenza Chapter 19) – from 1st October
- Those in care homes – from 1st October
- Carers – from 1st October
- Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals – from 1st October
- Frontline workers in a social care setting (e.g. care workers) without an employer led occupational health scheme – from 1st October
- All children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years – from 1st October
- Primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) – Given by Schools from October
- Secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11) – Given by Schools from October
Eligibility for the Covid-19 Vaccine 2025/26
COVID Vaccinations will be given to eligible patients at the same time as their flu vaccination where possible.
- Residents in a care home for older adults - from 1st October
- All adults aged 75 years and over - from 1st October
- Those who are immunosuppressed - from 1st October (Green book on Immunisation - chapter 14a COVID-19)
Please note: the NHS criteria for COVID vaccination this autumn have changed significantly. We are unable to give COVID vaccines to anyone who does not fall into one of the three categories above.
September Scheduled Flu Clinics
For Pregnant patients and Children Aged 2 & 3 ONLY - on 18th, 19th, 25th, and 26th September.
October Scheduled Flu/Covid Clinics
Our Seasonal Vaccination Clinics for Covid and Flu vaccinations will begin on Friday 3rd October 2025.
Clinics will run on most Fridays throughout October, as well as one Saturday.
We will be sending self-booking links via SMS/email to those who have access to smartphones and calling patients directly who do not have access to smartphone.
If you are eligible for both Covid and Flu vaccinations, you will be sent a booking link, with the expectation that both vaccines will be administered at the same appointment.
If you wish to receive only the Flu vaccination, please wait for the separate Flu-only booking link.
Please note:We will not be offering Covid-only clinics due to the storage and shelf-life requirements of the Covid vaccine.
Additional and 'mop-up' clinics will be held in November and December.
Thank you for your understanding.
Respratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccination Programme
From 1 September 2024, those who turn 75 and those aged 75 to 79 will be eligible for a free vaccine to protect them from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This is separate and in addition to the winter flu and COVID vaccination programmes.
RSV is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms like a cold, including:
- cough
- sore throat
- sneezing
- a 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 sadly die from it. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system.
RSV infection is also common in young children but is most serious for small babies and for older people.
For more information about the RSV vaccine, side effects and the programme please visit:
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Eligibility for the RSV vaccination
The vaccine will be available to pregnant women at week 28 or later and everyone aged 75 to 79 or turning 75 years old on or after 1 September 2024. Eligible patients will be offered a single dose of RSV vaccine. This is because older adults and pregnant patients are more at risk of serious complications from RSV. You can still get the vaccine up to the day before you turn 80.
Invitations
The surgery will contact you if you’re eligible for RSV.
This will most likely be a self-booking link via SMS to those who have access to smartphones and call patients directly who do not have access to smartphone.
