Vaccinations

All patients have now received invites to book their vaccination appointments, with almost 2000 patients having booked appointments.

The child nasal flu programme is now up and running with clinics on various days through to October 1^st. If you haven’t yet booked, please do so as soon as you are able.

Adult vaccination clinics commence in October; our clinics on 2^nd and 7^th October are now mostly full, but we have lots of availability on 8^th, 15^th and 29^th – if you have received an invite, please book to ensure your vaccine does not go to waste.

We have not forgotten our housebound patients; we will be visiting during October to administer your vaccines. We will call you before to advise you of the visit date.

Please feel free to contact our reception team if you have any queries regarding the vaccination programme – they will do their best to help or will pass your query to another member of the surgery to deal with.

We are now well into the invite schedule. To date over 2000 invites have been sent, by letter or text (which include self-booking links), and over 1,000 patients have booked their vaccination appointments. If you have received your invite but have yet to book, we encourage you to do so as soon as you are able to ensure maximum choice of appointments, both date and time – the clinic on Thursday 2^nd October is already full.

We continue to invite as quickly as we are able, please look out for your invite and contact us.

We now have a confirmed delivery date for our child nasal flus; invites for you to book your youngsters into the dedicated nasal flu clinics towards the end of September will be sent imminently. In surgery we can vaccinate all 2–3-year-olds, and also youngsters aged 4 – 18 years who are clinically at risk. All eligible patients will receive an invite to book into a clinic at surgery.

Thank you for your continued support of the surgery.

Flu and Covid clinic dates are now confirmed and set on our system.

Invites for eligible patients to book, via a self-booking link or by calling the surgery, will start being sent this week.

Please bear with us, we have over 3000 eligible patients to invite. Your invite will arrive if you are eligible. We aim to invite you as quickly as possible, but this needs to be in a managed way to ensure our IT systems and reception team are not overloaded.

If you pre-empt our invite and call to book with the surgery that’s fine, but please be aware that you will still receive an invite from us; your original appointment remains booked, just ignore the invite.

Appointments are available in Surgery on the following dates:

Thursday 2^nd October, Tuesday 7^th October, Wednesday 8^th October, Wednesday 15^th October, Wednesday 29^th October

We continue to work behind the scenes to ensure all our administrative processes are in place, before we are able to start inviting patients to book for your seasonal vaccinations.

We are checking medical records are appropriately coded to ensure you are invited for the correct vaccines based on this year’s eligibility.

In addition, we are setting our clinic days with appointments planned for efficiency. Bear in mind we still have to maintain all other services to our patients throughout the busy vaccination season.

For your information, eligibility is as below, as advised by the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.

Autumn Vaccination Programme 2025 – Flu and Covid

Planning for our Autumn Programme of Flu and Covid vaccines is now well under way.

Vaccines are ordered, for delivery in September. The programme itself begins for the vast majority of our eligible patients in October, and we have clinics being arranged across a number of days, including early and later appointments to help those of you who work or find it tricky to get here during the normal surgery opening hours.

We will be sending invites to our eligible patients towards the end of this month – please look out for these. Where we have mobile numbers recorded, as in previous years we will be sending self-book links, but if you prefer, you can call our friendly reception team to book. If we have no mobile recorded, we will contact you by letter asking you to book.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL US YET, CLINIC DATES HAVE YET TO BE FINALISED.

Further updates will be posted on here, on our Facebook page, and in surgery itself.