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Details of changes to Primary Care coming on 1st October

Click here to download our latest newsletter which has details of changes coming to Primary Care on 1st of October and an update on Covid and Flu vaccinations.

Added: 24/09/2022

NHS Invites More Than Four Million People For Autumn Booster as Care Homes Set To Get First Jabs

Care home residents and staff are among the first in the world to receive the new, variant-tackling jabs as the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme moves to the next phase.

The autumn booster rollout began on Monday, 5 September with England’s care home residents, staff and people who are housebound first in line to receive their top up ahead of winter. [Read more about flu. . .] [Read more about Covid . . .]

Added: 14/09/2022

COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, autumn/winter 2022

Getting your flu and COVID vaccines are two of the most important things you can do to keep yourself and others around you safe this winter.

Experts advise that those at greater risk will need extra protection this winter. For Covid-19 and flu, everyone aged 50 and over, people with certain health conditions that put them at risk and frontline health and care staff will be offered a vaccine.

To protect against flu, additional groups most at risk of getting seriously ill from flu or of passing it on to others, such as pregnant women, young children, primary school aged and some secondary school aged children will be offered protection. COVID-19 and flu can be serious for those these groups and getting both COVID-19 and flu at the same time increases risk. [Read more. . .]

Added: 14/09/2022