Covid and RSV Vaccination Clinics Spring/Summer 2026
Covid Vaccinations
Our Covid Spring/Summer Booster Vaccination Clinics commence on 13th April 2026. If you are eligible for this vaccine, you will receive an invitation to book an appointment.
When Spring comes, the protection from your last COVID vaccine might not be as strong. The NHS gives free vaccines to people who are more likely to get very sick from COVID. The COVID vaccine, just like the flu vaccine, helps protect people who might get very ill from the viruses going around.
The people who decide about vaccines (called the JCVI) have said that only those at the highest risk should get the COVID vaccine. You can learn more about this here: JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026 - GOV.UK
Starting 13th April 2026, Covid vaccinations will only be offered to:
- Adults aged 75 years and over or 75 before 30th June
- Residents in care homes for older adults
- Individuals who are immunosuppressed (aged 6 months and over)
Updated: 13th March 2026
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) What Is It?
RSV vaccines will continue to be offered from 1st April:
RSV is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including: cough, sore throat, sneezing, a runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system.
The RSV vaccine is recommended if:
- you're pregnant – the vaccine is recommended during every pregnancy (from 28 weeks onwards) to help protect your baby after they're born
- you're aged over 75
You can find out more by clicking on this link: RSV vaccine for adults (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Last Updated: 13th March 2026
Flu Vaccinations
Flu vaccines will continue to be offered until the end of March 2026 to:
- Pregnant Women
- Primary and Secondary School aged children – to be done at school with the school aged immunisation teams
- Pre-school children aged 2-3years old (DOB between – 01/09/2021 and 31/08/2023
- Children in clinical risk groups aged 6 months – 18 Years
- All Adults aged 65 years and over
- Patients who are 18 years old – 64 Years old who are in a clinical risk group and/or immunosuppressed
- Residents in long term residential care homes
- Carers who are in receipt of a carer’s allowance, or who are the main carer of an older or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk
- Household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals
- Frontline health and social care workers both clinical and non-clinical who have contact with patients/service users including those who work in a nursing home/residential home.
Last Updated: 13th March 2026
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