This is a seasonal clinic running from October every year.

Please make an appointment for your flu injection by calling reception and telling them what you require. The appoinment will usually be with the nurse.

The flu vaccination is developed annually following data collected by the World Health Organisation. The strains of flu that are most likely to be causing flu this year are identified and then included in the vaccination. This gives between 70-80% protection for those viruses that lasts for 1 year.

In Wales and the UK, this vaccine (the ‘flu jab’) is routinely offered free to people considered to be more at risk of developing complications from contracting flu.

• are 65 years of age or over
• children aged two and three years on 31st August 2025
• school children from reception to year 11 (inclusive)
• people aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
• pregnant women
• are living in a long-stay residential care home or other long-stay care facility (not including prisons, young offender institutions or university halls of residence)
• are the main carer for an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if you fall ill
• are a frontline health or social care worker
• people experiencing homelessness
• all adult residents in Welsh prisons

The seasonal flu vaccine is offered free of charge to anyone who is over six months of age to 64years in clinical risk groups including; 

• chronic (long-term) respiratory disease, such as asthma requiring regular inhaled steroids or COPD 
• chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
• chronic kidney disease 
• chronic liver disease
• chronic neurological disease, such as parkinsons disease, motor neurone disease 
• diabetes
• learning disability
• severe mental illmess
• epilepsy
• asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen
• a weakened immune system due to conditions, such as HIV or AIDs, or treatments that suppress the immune system, such as chemotherapy.
• morbidly obese (class III obesity) This is defined as those with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or above aged 16 or over.

You may also be offered a pneumococcal vaccination at the same time as the flu jab. This is a different vaccination aimed at invasive pneumococcal bacteria that are responsible for severe infections such as pneumonia and meningitis. It is a once only vaccination, unlike the flu jab, and is available to most of the same groups as the flu jab – ask us if you are unsure.

Everybody aged 65 and over should now be immunised to help protect them against pneumococcal infection which can cause diseases such as pneumonia, septicaemia (blood poisoning) and meningitis. Please phone the surgery during September to make an appointment if the above applies to you.

Vaccination Resources

Easy read MMR  https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/babies-and-pre-school/easy-read-the-mmr-vaccine  

MMR Large print leaflet  https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/mmr-large-print-leaflet/

MMR vaccination audio https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/mmr-vaccination-audio/

MMR vaccination BSL  https://youtu.be/Z1orSR89PBs

Vaccination video and Easy Read guide to support people with a learning disability.     https://youtu.be/y7teVTEKTeo

Easy Read Shingles https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/adults/easy-read-shingles-vaccine/

Get vaccinated against shingles  large print https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/adults/large-print-get-vaccinated-against-shingles/

Shingles vaccination audio https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/adults/audio-get-vaccinated-against-shingles/

BSL Get vaccination against Shingles  https://youtu.be/_zPuITYxOI4

Rotavirus vaccination BSL https://youtu.be/46Bm2aBNj-k

BCG vaccination BSL  https://youtu.be/N_NIlZriYjc

Pneumococcal vaccination for children under two https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/babies-and-pre-school/large-print-pneumococcal-vaccine-for-children-under-two-year/

Protect you and your baby against meningits and septicaemia https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/babies-and-pre-school/large-print-protect-you-and-your-baby-against-meningitis-and-septicaemia/

What to expect after vaccinations https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/vaccination-information-in-accessible-formats/babies-and-pre-school/large-print-what-to-expect-after-vaccinations/