Barrington Medical Centre WILL BE offering flu vaccines to all eligible patients – we will NOT be holding any Autumn Booster Covid vaccination clinics.
Currently the NHS England guidelines for Flu say practices can vaccinate:
From 1 September 2024:
- pregnant women
- all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024
- all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
From 03rd October 2024,:
- those aged 65 years and over
- those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
- 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
We will contact you early September 2024, either via text / telephone or letter to invite you to make an appointment.
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.
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