RSV Vaccination Posted or Updated on 10 Mar 2025

How to protect yourself by having the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine.

Please read the guide to the RSV vaccine for older adults via the link below:

RSV vaccine for adults (publishing.service.gov.uk) (EXTERNAL PDF LINK)

You are eligable for the free RSV vaccine if you:

• turn 75 years of age on or after 1 September 2024
• are already aged 75 to 79 years old on 1 September 2024

What is RSV?

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including cough, sore throat, sneezing and runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions.