COVID BOOSTER VACCINATIONS

The NHS will be offering booster vaccine doses (from next week) to people most at risk of COVID and who have had their first two vaccines – GPs will be contacting eligible people to let know when they should have the vaccine.

Eligibility

• care home residents
• Health and social care workers
• Over 50s
• 16-49 yrs. old with underlying health conditions
• Adult carers
• Households with immunosuppressed people
• Other people at risk ( clinical discretion )

Children aged 12-15 years  – COVID Vaccine Approved:

The government has also announced that children 12 – 15 year will also be offered one dose of the Pfizer vaccine from Monday, 20^th September 2021

Flu Eligibility

those eligible for NHS influenza vaccination in 2021 to 2022 are:

• all children aged 2 to 15 (but not 16 years or older) on 31 August 2021
• those aged 6 months to under 50 years in clinical risk groups
• pregnant women
• those aged 50 years and over
• those in long-stay residential care homes
• carers
• close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• frontline health and social care staff employed by:
• a registered residential care or nursing home
• registered domiciliary care provider of a voluntary managed hospice provider of Direct Payment (personal budgets)
  • and/or

Personal Health Budgets, such as Personal Assistants.