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 groups.

This year 2019, the flu vaccine clinics will be available at the practice at 1 PM on the following dates, 

These are allocated on a first come first serve basis.

21st October 2019	1st November 2019	2nd December 2019
23rd October 2019	4th November 2019	3rd December 2019
25th October 2019	5th November 2019	5th December 2019
28th October 2019	7th November 2019	9th December 2019
30th October 2019	11th November 2019	10th December 2019
	12th November 2019	12th December 2019
	14th November 2019
	18th November 2019
	19th November 2019
	21st November 2019
	25th November 2019
	26th November 2019
	28th November 2019

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 and three on 31st August 2019– date of birth on or after 1 September 2015 and on or before 31 August 2019 – 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 2019/20. Any child who has started school will receive their vaccination at school, not at the surgery.

PLEASE NOTE WE NOW DO HAVE CHILDHOOD FLU VACCINES IN STOCK.

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.