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NHS and Private Flu Vaccination Service
The flu vaccine is a safe and effective vaccine. It's offered every year
on the NHS to help protect people at risk of getting seriously ill from flu.
The best time to have the flu vaccine is in the autumn or early winter before
the flu starts spreading. But you can get the vaccine later.
Why Flu vaccine is important-
Flu vaccination is important because, while flu is unpleasant for most people, it can be dangerous and even life threatening for some people, particularly those with certain health conditions.
Who can have the flu vaccine under NHS funded program?
For the 2023 to 2024 influenza season, influenza vaccine could be
offered at NHS expense to the following groups under the community pharmacy
seasonal influenza vaccination advanced service:
- Individuals
aged 65 years or over (including those becoming age 65 years by 31 March
2024)
- Adults
aged from 18 years to under 65 years of age in a clinical risk group
category such as those with:
- chronic
(long-term) respiratory disease, such as asthma that requires continuous
or repeated use of inhaled or systemic steroids or with previous
exacerbations requiring hospital admission, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) or bronchitis
- chronic
heart disease such as heart failure
- chronic
kidney disease at stage 3, 4 or 5
- chronic
liver disease
- chronic
neurological disease, such as Parkinson’s disease or motor neurone
disease,
- learning
disability
- diabetes
and adrenal insufficiency
- asplenia
or dysfunction of the spleen
- immunosuppression,
a weakened immune system due to illness (such as HIV/AIDS) or treatment
(such as cancer treatment)
- morbidly
obese adults with a BMI of 40kg/m2 and above.
- all
pregnant women (including those women who become pregnant during the
influenza season)
- People
living in long stay care residential care homes or other long stay care
facilities.
- Close
contacts (aged 18 years and over) of immunocompromised individuals,
specifically individuals who expect to share living accommodation on most
days over the winter and, therefore, for whom continuing close contact is
unavoidable
- adults
(aged 18 years and over) living in long-stay residential care homes or
other long-stay care facilities where rapid spread is likely to follow
introduction of infection and cause high morbidity and mortality. This
does not include, for instance, prisons, young offender institutions,
university halls of residence or boarding schools
- Carers
- adults (aged 18 years and over) who are in receipt of a carer’s
allowance, or those who are the main carer of an older or disabled person
whose welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill
- Frontline
staff (aged 18 years and over) without employer led occupational health
schemes, employed by a registered residential care or nursing home or
registered domiciliary care provider, who are directly involved in the
care of vulnerable individuals who are at increased risk from exposure to
influenza
- Hospice
workers without employer led occupational health schemes employed by a
voluntary managed hospice provider, who are directly involved in the care
of vulnerable individuals who are at increased risk from exposure to
influenza.
- Frontline
workers without employer led occupational health schemes. Employed through
Direct Payments (personal budgets) and/or Personal Health Budgets, such as
Personal Assistants, to deliver domiciliary care to individuals
For patients who are not eligible for NHS flu vaccination service could avail the service privately for £12.99 for egg-based vaccine (QIVe) and £17.99 for cell- based vaccine (QIVc)