Updated 12th September 2025
Housebound
We have passed your details to Pearl Pharmacy for your Autumn 2025 COVID vaccination. They will contact you directly in due course. If you have any queries, please wait until they are in touch
We previously sent our district nurses our housebound patients eligable for Flu who agian will be in touch shortly.
Please support your local surgery by having your Flu and COVID-19 vaccines with us.
If we have COVID-19 vaccines in stock when you attend your Flu appointment, we will administer both at the same time — there is no need to book a separate appointment.
Please note:
We cannot request specific brands of the COVID-19 vaccine. We must administer the vaccines supplied to us by NHS England.
We are currently inviting eligible patients for September appointments.
For children aged 2 to 3, we are unable to order the nasal Flu vaccine until September. Therefore, we cannot invite these patients just yet.
NHS England has stated that vaccinations for the wider population cannot begin until October. Once we receive a confirmed date, we will send out invitations via the NHS App, SMS, email, and other methods.
We kindly ask that you do not call the surgery to book an appointment unless you have been contacted by us.
We are well-prepared for the Flu campaign, but due to NHS England constraints and lack of confirmed vaccination dates, we must wait before inviting certain groups — especially patients aged 65 and over.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Eligibility
Eligible cohorts for flu vaccination are based on the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The programme aims to provide direct protection to those who are at higher risk of flu associated morbidity and mortality and to reduce transmission to all age groups through the vaccination of children.
The following cohorts are announced and authorised to be eligible to receive a flu vaccination:
From 1 September 2025:
- pregnant women
- all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025
- primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
- secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)
- all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
From October 2025, exact start date to be confirmed by NHS England in due course:
- those aged 65 years and over
- those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, Influenza chapter 19 )
- 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
- frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants
All frontline health care workers, including both clinical and non-clinical staff who have contact with patients, should be offered flu vaccine from the start of October (exact date to be confirmed) as a vital part of the organisation’s policy for the prevention of the transmission of flu. Employers should make the vaccine accessible for all frontline staff, encourage staff to get vaccinated, and monitor the delivery of their programmes. Further communications from NHS England will describe operational considerations.
Social care workers directly working with people clinically vulnerable to flu should also have the flu vaccine provided by their employer. There are circumstances where frontline staff, employed by specific social care providers without access to employer led occupational health schemes (see cohort eligibility above), can access the vaccine through the NHS free of charge.