The Covid and Flu Seasonal Booster programme will soon be live and is scheduled to run from 3rd October 2025 in line with guidance from NHSE. Appointments will be available on Fridays and Saturdays, for those patients eligible for both Flu and Covid vaccinations.
The vaccinations will take place at Badger Farm Surgery, Badger Farm Road, Winchester, SO22 4QB (next to Sainsbury’s).
The advice for this Autumn is to offer the vaccine to the following eligible patient groups:
Covid Vaccination will be offered in England in autumn 2025 to:
· adults aged 75 years and over
· residents in a care home for older adults
· individuals aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppressed, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book, the UK Health Security Agency’s information on immunisation against infectious disease
Influenza Vaccination will be offered in England in Autumn to:
· Pregnant women and all eligible children will start from 1st September 2025. For school aged cohorts, vaccination in schools should be completed by 12 December 2025 with further catch-up opportunities as appropriate.
· All other adult flu cohorts will start from 1 October 2025 and will run for approximately 4 weeks to provide the best possible protection going into winter.
· The COVID-19 programme will run from 1 October 2025 to 31 Jan 2026. However, the majority of COVID-19 vaccinations should be completed by 19 December 2025.
In line with JCVI advice, frontline health and social care workers (HSCWs) and staff working in care homes for older adults will not be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination under the national programme for autumn 2025.
You will be invited for your vaccination during week commencing 25th August, but in the meantime, we kindly ask that you please do not call the surgery to book in, as all eligible persons will be invited by text, email or telephone.