Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Programme: autumn/winter 2024/25 - announcement from NHS England
The government has accepted final advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) regarding a COVID-19 autumn/winter 2024/25 vaccination programme.
Vaccination is a high priority action for the NHS, to protect people from serious illness and to support NHS and adult social care resilience.
The main flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaign will commence on Thursday 3 October 2024.
The groups to be offered a COVID-19 vaccine in autumn/winter 2024/25 are:
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residents in a care home for older adults
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all adults aged 65 years and over
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persons 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 UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Green Book on immunisation against infectious disease. These tables specify the following conditions: those with chronic respiratory disease, chronic heart disease and vascular disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, chronic neurological disease, diabetes mellitus and other endocrine disorders, immunosuppression, asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen, morbid obesity, severe mental illness, younger adults in long-stay nursing and residential care settings, pregnancy (all stages). For children under 16 the list additonally includes endocrine disorders, serious genetic abnormalities that affect a number of system, chronic conditions of the kidney, liver or digestive system.
Read the full statement online: NHS England » Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Programme: autumn/winter 2024/25
National Booking Service (NBS)
The NBS will be opened for participating sites to post COVID-19 and flu appointments from Monday 16 September 2024. It will be open for bookings from the public from Monday 23 September 2024.
The last available appointment date on NBS will be Friday 20 December 2024 for both flu and COVID-19.
