Every year our practice runs a series of Flu clinics providing flu vaccinations for patients that are deemed to be ‘at risk’. This is part of the national flu immunisation programme which aims to protect those most at risk of serious illness or death should they catch flu.

In the UK, the Department of Health recommends annual flu vaccination for adults aged 65 and over, pregnant women, those living in long-stay residential care homes, healthcare workers and carers, and all those aged six months and over with any of the following conditions:

Serious heart disease, chest problems including certain asthmatics on steroid inhalers or steroid tablets, those with chronic bronchitis and emphysema, serious kidney disease, Diabetes, lowered immunity due to disease such as cancer or an absent or dysfunctional spleen and treatment with chemotherapy or high doses of steroids, serious liver disease, anyone who has ever had a stroke or a mini-stroke, t

Those who have cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and related or similar conditions or hereditary and degenerative diseases of the nervous system or muscles or severe neurological disability should be assessed individually by their GP

Patients requiring vaccines are contacted through telephone or by post.

Everybody aged 65 and over should now be immunised to help protect them against pneumococcal infection which can cause diseases such as pneumonia, septicaemia (blood poisoning) and meningitis. Please phone the surgery during September to make an appointment if the above applies to you.

The following people are eligible for an autumn Covid booster:

• Residents in care homes for older adults
• All adults aged 65 years and over
• People aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the Covid-19 chapter of the UKHSA Green Book on Immunisation
• frontline health and social care workers.
• People aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression, as defined in the UKHSA Green Book
• People aged 16 to 64 years who are carers, as defined in the UKHSA Green Book, and staff working in care homes for older adults

Patients requiring vaccines are contacted through telephone or by post.