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Seasonal vaccines
Find walk-in Covid-19 and flu vaccine clinics here: local vaccine clinics
Seasonal vaccines
Find local vaccination clinic offers, advice, and eligibilty at: Walk-in vaccine clinics
You can still get a flu or RSV vaccine after the 20 December so if you are eligible for these, please book now.
Winter vaccine news:
- The National Booking Service (NBS) to book Covid-19 and flu vaccine appointments closed on 19 December 2024.
- Some outreach projects and walk-in vaccine clinics remain live until 31 January 2025.
- The walk-in finder for Covid-19 vaccine continues to 31 January 2025: Find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site, or through a pharmacy: Find a pharmacy
- 119 telephone number will continue until 31 January 2025, offering patients advice and signposting to appropriate services.
- Health and Social Care Staff can get their Covid-19 vaccine through hospital trusts until 31 January 2025.
Covid-19 boosters
If you are eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine, check out local walk-in clinics here. No appointment is needed – you can just turn up.
You may be offered both Covid-19 and flu vaccines at the same time.
Eligible groups:
- anyone aged 65 years and over
- residents in a care home for older adults
- anyone aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group (as defined in tables 3 or 4 here)
- frontline NHS and social care workers, and those working in care homes for older people. Employers should signpost these staff to the most convenient COVID-19 vaccination offer. This may be through NBS, where staff can self-declare their eligibility.
Parents of children at clinical risk age 6 months to 4 years old: you can self-refer (Referral Form Covid vaccine) or your GP will refer you to:
- Buckinghamshire: Stoke Mandeville Hospital covidvaccineteam@nhs.net
- Berkshire West: Royal Berkshire Hospital rbb-tr.vaccination.booking@nhs.net
- Oxfordshire: Townlands Hospital, Henley rbb-tr.vaccination.booking@nhs.net
People newly diagnosed as immunosuppressed or who fit eligibilty criteria, please contact your GP or hospital specialist to request vaccination outside the seasonal programme.
Covid-19 vaccine information for patients with complex needs (i.e. allergies): There is no longer an alternative to the standard mRNA Covid vaccine and NHS advice is to ensure that patients are offered the standard vaccine in an appropriate clinical setting. Referral is by GP or hospital specialist to the Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Flu
The flu vaccine is offered on the NHS every year in winter to help protect people at risk of flu complications. View info on local walk-in clinics here
If you are also eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine you may be offered this at the same time.
The jab is available to:
- pregnant women
- children aged 2 or 3 years old (on 31 August 2024)
- all primary and secondary school-aged children (from Reception to Year 11)
- those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
- those aged 65 years and over
- those living in long-stay residential care homes or nursing homes, other long-stay health or social care facilities or a house-bound patient
- 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
- locum GPs
- social care staff without an employer-led occupational health scheme can also access the flu vaccination through their GP, community pharmacy or NBS
Read more: Flu vaccine – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
RSV is a very common virus and causes hundreds of thousands of infections across the UK each winter. The NHS offers a vaccine for RSV, a common cause of coughs and colds as well as more serious lung infections in older people and young babies. It is given to:
- anyone aged 75 to 79 – your GP will send an RSV vaccination invite
- pregnant women from 28 weeks, to protect their babies from bronchiolitis – speak to your maternity service or GP surgery about the vaccine.
If invited for an RSV vaccine, book now and protect yourself and your baby.
Find out more here: RSV vaccine – NHS or view the videos below.
Pneumococcal vaccination
The pneumococcal vaccine helps protect against serious illnesses such as pneumonia and meningitis. It’s recommended for people at higher risk of these illnesses, such as babies and adults aged 65 and over.
The pneumococcal vaccine helps protect against some types of bacterial infections that can cause serious illnesses, including:
- meningitis (an infection in the brain and spinal cord)
- sepsis (a life-threatening reaction to an infection)
- pneumonia (an infection in the lungs)
The pneumococcal vaccine can only been given by a healthcare professional at your GP surgery. They will usually contact you if you or your child are eligible for the pneumococcal vaccine.
Eligible groups:
You are at higher risk of getting seriously ill from pneumococcal infections if you have:
- a long-term condition that affects your breathing such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or cystic fibrosis
- a long-term condition that affects your heart such as coronary heart disease or heart failure
- chronic kidney disease
- a long-term condition that affects your liver such as cirrhosis
- diabetes
- a weakened immune system due to a condition such as HIV, or a treatment such as steroid medicine or chemotherapy
- a condition where fluid that protects the brain and spinal cord leaks out (cerebrospinal fluid leaks)
- sickle cell disease, problems with your spleen or you have had your spleen removed
- cochlear implants
Read more: Pneumococcal vaccine – NHS
Vaccination for those newly diagnosed as immunosuppressed or at risk out of seasonal Covid-19 vaccine programmes.
If you are diagnosed as immunosuppressed or at risk, you may receive a Covid-19 vaccine out of the seasonal booster programme.
Eligibility criteria:
- Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment, including patients undergoing chemotherapy leading to immunosuppression, patients undergoing radical radiotherapy, solid organ transplant recipients, bone marrow or stem cell transplant recipients, HIV infection at all stages, multiple myeloma or genetic disorders affecting the immune system (e.g. IRAK-4, NEMO, complement disorder, SCID).
- Individuals who are receiving immunosuppressive or immunomodulating biological therapy including, but not limited to, anti-TNF, alemtuzumab, ofatumumab, rituximab, patients receiving protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors, and individuals treated with steroid sparing agents such as cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil.
- Individuals treated with or likely to be treated with systemic steroids for more than a month at a dose equivalent to prednisolone at 20mg or more per day for adults.
- Anyone with a history of haematological malignancy, including leukaemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. Those who require long term immunosuppressive treatment for conditions including, but not limited to, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, scleroderma and psoriasis.
Useful links
- More about routine vaccinations: Immunisation and vaccination
- Read more: COVID-19 services – NHS
- Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation guidance: COVID-19 Greenbook chapter 14a
- Covid-19 vaccine side effects and safety: COVID-19 vaccines side effects and safety
- Getting a vaccination: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine
