The flu vaccine is a safe & effective vaccine. It's offered every year via the NHS to help protect people at risk of getting seriously ill from flu. The best time to have the flu vaccine is in the autumn or early winter before flu starts spreading. But you can still get the vaccine later.
Parent's / Guardians of all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023 please book your appointment NOW on-line or telephone the surgery
Appointments will be available very soon for all other age groups to book their appointments - watch for updates here and wait for text or letter invites which will tell you how to book your appointment.
The groups below will be eligible for a flu vaccine at the surgery from 1st September 2023:
- those aged 65 years and over
- all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023
- those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
- pregnant women
- those in long-stay residential care homes
- 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
Primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) will receive their vaccinations at school
Read more about why the vaccine is safe and important at:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/why-vaccination-is-safe-and-important/
Barrington Medical Centre
First Floor Altrincham Health and Wellbeing Centre
WA14 1PF
0161 928 9621