Flu & Covid Vaccinations Posted or Updated on 17 Jan 2024

Patients can now book an appointment to attend one of the clinics at the surgery to have the Flu & Covid vaccination. Both vaccinations can be administered together.

Please contact the surgery on 07422 511063 to book an appointment, or visit our website - angellanesurgery.co.uk and send a message to book an appointment.

Please see below information on those eligible for a flu and covid vaccine this year:

Those eligible for flu vaccination are:

• those aged 65 years and over
• those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, chapter 19 (Influenza))
• pregnant women
• those in long-stay residential care homes
• 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

Those eligible for an autumn covid vaccine are:

• residents in a care home for older adults
• all adults aged 65 years and over
• persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as laid out in the Immunisation Green Book, COVID-19 chapter (Green Book)
• frontline health and social care workers
• persons aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts (as defined in the Green Book) of people with immunosuppression
• persons aged 16 to 64 years who are carers (as defined in the Green Book) and staff working in care homes for older adults.