For your diary - Autumn Booster 2023

[BumbleB]

Just to add that neither of us are from Tamworth, or even Staffordshire!

I was born in Cheshire (Hoole, so that makes me a Hooligan), OH born in Edmonton.  We met in Runcorn in 1964.  I was emigrating to NZ, but he persuaded me to go to London instead.  We married in East Ham, daughter born in West Ham on Bobby Moore's birthday in 1966!!  Then moved to Cheadle Hulme in Cheshire, from there to Gillingham, Kent and now in Tamworth, Staffordshire.  None of this moving round the corner for us!!

[brigidmac]

I think I registered my interest in receiving COVID + flu vaccination on line  last week

But no confirmation as yet so I'm not sure what the next step is

[Gadget]

Do you qualify for them this time Brigid?

In line with advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation,

Those eligible for a flu vaccine this year include:

    those aged 65 years and over
    those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, chapter 19 (Influenza))
    pregnant women
    all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023
    school-aged children (from Reception to Year 11)
    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

Those eligible for an autumn covid vaccine are:

    residents in a care home for older adults
    all adults aged 65 years and over
    persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as laid out in the Immunisation Green Book, COVID-19 chapter (Green Book)
    frontline health and social care workers
    persons aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts (as defined in the Green Book) of people with immunosuppression
    persons aged 16 to 64 years who are carers (as defined in the Green Book) and staff working in care homes for older adults.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2023/08/nhs-flu-and-covid-vaccine-programmes-brought-forward-due-to-risk-of-new-covid-variant/

[brigidmac]

No im not in any of those categories
65 next year

But I did get a message from GP + an offer to got to walk- in centre but it was 2 bus ride journey