Flu Vaccination

Flu Vaccination

If you are eligible for flu vaccination on the NHS please book an appointment with one of our nursing team. Vaccination is advised between September & February each year for patients in specific high-risk

This year 2018, the Flu vaccine clinics will be held at the practice on,

• Monday 8th October
• Tuesday 9th October
• Wednesday 10th October
• Thursday 11th October
• Friday 12th October
• Monday 15th October
• Wednesday 17th October
• Friday 19th October
• Monday 22nd October
• Wednesday 24th October
• Friday 26th October
• Monday 29th October
• Wednesday 31st October
• Friday 2nd November
• Thursday 8th November
• Wednesday 14th November
• Thursday 15th November
• Wednesday 21st November
• Thursday 22nd November
• Tuesday 27th November
• Wednesday 28th November
• Wednesday 5th November

You must be in one of the following categories to be eligible to receive Flu vaccination free from the NHS:

• Carer (this means you look after a relative, friend or neighbour in Leeds who cannot manage without your help due to sickness, age or disability)
• Chronic heart disease
• Chronic liver disease
• Chronic neurological disease (such as Epilepsy)
• Chronic renal disease
• Chronic respiratory disease (such as Asthma). When you come for a flu vaccination if we have not prescribed your asthma medicine for you before, you must bring either your asthma medicines or your repeat medication list with you so we can be certain you are eligible to be given a vaccination on the NHS
• Diabetes
• Health and Social Care workers
• Long-stay residential care home residents
• Pregnant (or recently been pregnant)
• Weakened immune system (such as Coeliac Disease, or on certain medicines)

Anyone older than six months, with one of the conditions on the list above, is eligible for free NHS flu vaccination.

Children aged two, three and four years old – date of birth on or after 1 September 2014 and on or before 31 August 2016 – who do not have one of the conditions on the list above are eligible to receive free NHS flu immunisation– this is part of the NHS Childhood Immunisation Program 2017/18. Any child who has started school will receive their vaccination at school, not at the surgery.

Patients who do not fulfil the eligibility criteria above, but want to be vaccinated, can choose to attend a high street pharmacy (such as Boots, Superdrug, Lloyds), where they can pay for the vaccination, and receive it there.