Seasonal Flu Vaccinations

Seasonal Flu Vaccination Programme 2022/2023 – Dates to be confirmed 

Do You Meet The Criteria For A Flu Vaccination?

• All children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2022
• All primary school aged children (from reception to Year 6)
  
• Pregnant Women
• Those aged 65 years and Over
• Those in long-stay residential care homes
• Carers
• In close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• Those aged six months to under 65 years in clinical risk group, for example:-

-Diabetes

-Asthma

-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

-Coronary Heart Disease

-Atrial Fibrillation

-Heart Failure

-Stroke

-Cancer

-Immunosuppressant

-No Spleen

-Liver or Kidney Transplant

• Frontline staff employed by the following types of social care providers without employer led occupational health schemes:

– A registered residential care or nursing home

-Registered domiciliary care provide

-A voluntary managed hospice provider

-Direct payment (personal budgets) or Personal Health Budgets, such as Personal Assistants 

Patients that were eligible in the 2021 to 2022 season but that are not included in the patients list for 2022 to 2023 are:

• Those ages 50 to 64 Years
• Secondary school children in Years 7 to 11 (between 11 and 15 years of age on the 31 August 2022)