07/09/2025
📣St PETER'S SURGERY FLU & COVID CLINICS📣
Flu & Covid Vaccination clinics in OCTOBER 2025
📣OUR SATURDAY CLINIC WILL BE HELD ON THE 4.10.25 Other clinics available!
❗️If you are eligible you don't have to wait for us to invite you, please contact reception to arrange an appointment.
You should have the flu vaccine if you are:
📌pregnant
📌aged 65 or over (or turn 65 before the end of the flu vaccination programme – usually March each year), or
aged six months to 64 years with a long-term health condition, including:
📌problems with your chest or breathing, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, that need regular steroid inhalers or tablets
📌a heart problem
📌kidney disease (from stage 3)
📌liver disease
📌nerve conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease or motor neurone disease
📌a learning disability
📌severe mental illness
📌diabetes
📌epilepsy
📌a weak immune system due to illness or treatment
📌a missing spleen or a problem with your spleen, or
being very overweight (a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more and aged 16 or over).
Even if you feel well, you are at higher risk of getting seriously ill from flu if any of the above apply to you.
The following people should also have the flu vaccine to help protect themselves and those around them.
📌People living in a care home
📌People working directly with patients or clients in health or social care
📌People who are homeless
📌Poultry workers who are at high risk
📌Children aged two and three years (age on 31 August)
School-age children and young people from reception to year 11
Carers
📌First responders and members of voluntary organisations providing planned emergency first aid
📌Those who live with someone who has a weak immune system
If your child is eligible for a flu vaccine, you should be contacted by their GP surgery or school nurse. If you think your child might have missed their vaccine, contact the school nurse if they are school age or GP surgery if they are not in school.
Please contact the Surgery to book your vaccine!!
