Every year the government and NHS take advice from the JVCI to decide who are the most vulnerable patients and who would most benefit from a flu jab or a covid jab. This means that you might be invited one year, and not the next. We can only invite and vaccinate patients who are in the up to date “at risk” groups. The UK Health Security Agency have some really useful blogs explaining who is eligible for covid and flu jabs. Not everyone who is able to have a free NHS flu jab, can access a Covid-19 vaccination. https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/01/your-guide-to-whos-eligible-for-the-autumn-2025-flu-vaccine/ https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/whos-eligible-for-the-2025-covid-19-vaccine-or-autumn-booster/
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Flu and Covid Vaccinations Winter 25/26
Winter Vaccinations 25/26
We will be running some weekend clinics, eligible patients will be invited to book an appointment:
- Saturday 4th October for over 65s: 8am – 12:30pm at PMC, Rawcliffe, Heworth Green and Fulford surgeries
- Saturday 11th October for under 65s: 8am – 12:30pm at PMC, Heworth Green and Fulford surgeries
Housebound patients will be contacted in the coming weeks to be offered flu and covid (if eligible) vaccines and are likely to be vaccinated in November.
Text invites are being sent to those patients who have consented to receive texts and letters will be sent out to arrive in the next week.
Patients eligible for flu vaccination:
- those aged 65 years and over
- those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, Influenza chapter 19 )
- pregnant women and women experiencing a miscarriage in the campaign dates
- patients in a long-stay residential care home
- carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
- close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants
Patients eligible for Covid-19 vaccination:
- those aged 75yr and over (or turning over 75 in the campaign dates)
- patients aged 18 – 75yr who are immunosuppressed
- patients living in a care home
