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Flu & COVID Vaccinations 2024-2025

 

Flu & COVID-19 vaccinations – October 2024

 

We are pleased to announce that this Autumn, Roseneath have been selected to offer COVID-19 vaccinations and we shall be holding four weekend clinics in October:

  • Saturday 5th October
  • Sunday 13th October
  • Saturday 19th October
  • Sunday 27th October

Eligible patients will be invited directly to one of our clinics by letter via the Health Board. 

Around 3,400 Roseneath patients qualify for a COVID-19 vaccination and therefore, we would encourage as many of you as possible to attend the appointment that you are offered.

Patients who qualify for COVID-19 also qualify for a flu vaccination and in line with guidance and our delivery in 2022, we will be administering both vaccinations at your COVID-19 appointment.   

As your GP, we are best placed to administer your vaccines safely.  At your appointment you can choose to have both vaccines or just the one.  

Changes to the start of the 2024 to 2025 vaccination programme

The start of vaccine delivery has been delayed this year until October due to evidence that the effectiveness can wane throughout Winter if given too early (JCVI - Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation). 


Eligible cohorts for the influenza (flu) season in 2024 to 2025

The JCVI has not recommended any changes to the eligibility criteria which applied for the 2023 to 2024 programme. Therefore, the groups eligible for a flu vaccine in Wales as part of the routine national flu programme in 2024 to 2025 will be as follows:

  • children aged two and three years on 31 August 2024
  • school aged children from reception to year 11 (inclusive)
  • people aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group 
  • people aged 65 years and older (age on 31 March 2025)
  • all adult residents in Welsh prisons
  • pregnant women
  • carers of a person whose health or welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill
  • frontline health and care workers
  • people experiencing homelessness
  • household contacts of the immunocompromised 

Groups eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in autumn 2024

For autumn 2024, the following groups will be eligible for a single dose of

Covid-19 vaccine:

• people aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as defined in

tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book (which

includes pregnant women and the immunosuppressed)

• residents in a care home for older adults

• people aged 65 years and older (age on 31 March 2025)

• all adult residents in Welsh prisons

• unpaid carers

• frontline health and social care workers

• Staff working in care homes for older adults

• people experiencing homelessness

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