Flu and Covid

The groups we can offer for a COVID-19 vaccine in Spring 2026 are:

• residents in a care home for older adults
• all adults aged 75 years and over
• Persons aged 18 years and over who are immunosuppressed, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book

If your child is aged 5-17 years old and they require a vaccine, then you can go to the following pharmacies

From 1 September:

• pregnant women
• all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2026
• primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
• secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)
• all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years

From 1st October:

• 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 )
• 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.