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Flu Vaccine

Winter Flu Vaccinations

The flu vaccine can help protect you from catching flu and reduce the risk of becoming seriously unwell if you do catch it. It also helps protect vulnerable people around you.

Most side effects are mild and short-lived, such as a sore arm, tiredness or a mild temperature. The vaccine cannot give you flu.

No vaccine is 100% effective, so you may still catch flu but the vaccine can make the illness milder and reduce the risk of serious complications. Vaccination gives you the best available protection each season. Click here to find out more about this years vaccine

Walk-in clinic’s - No appointment needed, just turn up!

for all patients eligible for the winter flu vaccine on the following dates:

Thursday 1st October          9am – 12.30pm

Friday 2nd October                10am – 5pm

Saturday 3rd  October         9.30am – Noon

 

Vaccination eligibility:

The eligible cohorts for this year are:

  • children aged two and three years on 31 August 2026
  • People aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group (see below for details of at-risk groups)
  • People aged 65 years and older (age on 31 March 2027)
  • Pregnant women (at any stage of pregnancy)
  • Carers of a person whose health or welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill.
  • Frontline health and social care workers, and those working with poultry.
  • People experiencing homelessness.
  • Household contacts of the immunocompromised

Clinical at-risk groups include patients with the following conditions:

COPD or other respiratory diseases requiring regular inhaled steroids

Chronic diseases like heart disease, liver disease, neurological disease, kidney disease (stage 3 upwards)

Learning Disability

Severe Mental Illness

Diabetes or Epilepsy

Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment

No spleen or dysfunction of the spleen

BMI of greater than 40