A severe flu season is expected this winter, with cases likely to begin rising in October – earlier than usual. The best way to protect yourself and others is with a flu vaccination.
Flu vaccinations are available for everyone in priority groups from 1 October:
- Frontline workers in health and social care
- People aged 65 years and over
- People aged 6 months to 65 years in clinical risk groups
- People in long-stay residential care homes
- Carers (getting carer’s allowance or main carers of an elderly or disabled person)
- Live with someone with a weakened immune system
- Pregnant people
- Children aged 2 and 3
- School children
Book your vaccine via your GP, pharmacy, workplace, care home or school. Protect yourself and others.