Seasonal vaccines

You can still get a flu or RSV vaccine until the 31 January 2025 through walk-in clinics or outreach projects. If you are eligible for these please find a walk-in clinic now.

Visit:  

• Walk-in vaccine clinics 
• Find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site
• Find a pharmacy

The free 119 telephone number will continue until 31 January 2025 offering patients advice and signposting to appropriate services.

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 staff to the most convenient site or through hospital trusts until 31 January 2025.

Parents of children at clinical risk age 6 months to 4 years old 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.