Flu Vaccine – Autumn and winter 2025

Flu vaccinations are available until March 2026 – you will need to contact a local pharmacy if you are eligible and require the flu vaccine

Flu vaccines are available to:

• pregnant women;
• Children (FLU VACCINE)- we will send invites to the parent/guardian of eligible children via a text message to book a clinic.  
• All children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025 and all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years.
• Primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) and secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11) will be offered the vaccine at school

From October 2025, exact start date to be confirmed by NHS England in due course:

• those aged 65 years and over
• those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
• 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

All frontline health care workers, including both clinical and non-clinical staff who have contact with patients

Social care workers directly working with people clinically vulnerable to flu should also have the flu vaccine provided by their employer.

The National Booking Service are sending out invites on behalf of NHS England via text, e-mail, and post. This is run as a separate campaign offering you the choice of booking to go to a local centre.