Vaccination Preparations
Important information to help prepare teams for the covid-19 and flu vaccination service can be found below:
The Seasonal Vaccinations Site Campaign Guide AW24 is now available on Future NHS.
Vaccine update: issue 349, September 2024 Flu special
This issue includes:
- flu vaccination for health and social care workers
- children’s flu programme
- resources and promotional materials
- routine and non-routine vaccine supply
The AW 2024/25 Campaign toolkit and materials have been released, with both public-facing and staff-facing messages. These resources can also be download from the Campaign Resource Centre.
A poster summarising which flu vaccine should be given to eligible/clinical risk groups, with images of the manufacturer’s box for each vaccine, is available to download.
You can also inform your patients about the late start to the programme using the poster and leaflet.
Community pharmacy teams will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination offer, which may be through NBS, where staff can self-declare their eligibility.
NBS will be opened for all participating sites to post COVID-19 and flu appointments from Monday 16th September 2024. It will be open for bookings from the public from Monday 23rd September 2024.
The main flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes will both start on Thursday 3rd October 2024.
NHS England anticipate that most flu and COVID-19 vaccinations should be completed by Friday 20th December 2024.
