Flu Vaccines
Information about our flu clinics each Autumn will be available on our website front page and on a recorded message on our telephone system
The Department of Health recommends annual flu vaccination for the following patients:
- patients aged six months to 64 years in clinical risk groups eg patients with diabetes, asthma, impaired immunity, high BMI
- pregnant women
- all children aged two to eight on 31 August each year
- those in long-stay residential care homes
- carers
- patients with learning disabilities
The vaccination is manufactured each year in accordance with World Health Organisation guidance about the active strains of influenza virus and, for maximum benefit, it is recommended that vaccination is given in the early Autumn.
Further information about flu vaccination is available here:
https://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/flu-influenza-vaccine.aspx
