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Flu & Covid Vaccine update

Flu:

From 1 September 2024:

• pregnant patients
• all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024
• primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
• secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)
• all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
• Children’s flu vaccine – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

 From 3 October 2024:

• 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
• close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• frontline HSCW (inc. Care Home staff)

 Covid:From 3 October 2024:

• residents in a care home for older adults
• all adults aged 65 years and over
• persons 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 UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Green Book on immunisation against infectious disease
• frontline HSCW (inc. Care Home staff)