30/11/2021 – Dear Patients,
If you have not had your flu jabs this season and are eligible for flu vaccine, please contact surgery to book appointment with the nurse to have this done.
Please make sure to observe social distancing rules when you arrive at the surgery.
Patients that are eligible for the flu vaccine are:
- Those aged 50 years and older
- Those aged six months to under 50 years in clinical risk groups
- Pregnant women
- Patients in long-stay residential care homes
- Registered Carers
- Children aged 2 and 3 on 31 August 2021
- Those with close contacts to people with compromised immune systems
- Frontline health or social care workers
Following on from above, the clinical at risk groups are as follows:
- Lung, heart, kidney, liver & neurological diseases
- Diabetes
- Asthma and Chronic Respiratory diseases
- Pregnancy
- Suppressed immunity
- BMI of 40 or above