BARLBOROUGH MEDICAL

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**Joint COVID-19 & Flu Vaccination Clinics - UPDATED 13/9/2024**

We are running Joint Flu/Covid-19 vaccination clinics from 3rd October 2024 at both our Barlborough and Renishaw surgeries. These include weekday and weekend clinics. Initial booking invites have gone out via SMS to those eligible patients (as detailed below) & we will soon be phoning those patients that are eligible and do not have a Mobile number on record. In the meantime, if you are eligible, please feel free to contact us to book in. More slots will be opened up as we get further into the vaccination campaign.

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We will contact those eligible patients who are Housebound OR in long-stay residential care homes separately. We expect to begin vaccinating Housebound patients w/c 7th & 14th October & vaccinating our Care Homes from 8th October.

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Seasonal COVID-19 Vaccination  - UPDATE

The Winter 2024/25 Seasonal COVID-19 campaign is due to get underway from 3rd October 2024.

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Eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccination is based on the advice and recommendations of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

 

The following groups are to be offered the COVID-19 vaccination:

 

From 3 October 2024:

• those aged 65 years and over

• those aged 6 months to 64 years in clinical risk groups

• 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

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If you are eligible, and have not yet received your vaccination invitation, please contact the surgery to book in. 

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N.B. We currently have no information on if/when 5-11 Year Old & 11-17 Year Old Covid-19 vaccinations will be available. We will update in due course. Please contact the National Booking Service for further information.

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Seasonal FLU Jab - UPDATE

The Winter 2024/25 Seasonal Flu campaign is now underway.

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Eligibility for flu vaccination is based on the advice and recommendations of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

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The following groups are to be offered the flu vaccination:

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From 1 September 2024:

• pregnant women

• all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024 (NASAL Spray)

• primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)

• secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)

• all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years

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From 3 October 2024:

• those aged 65 years and over

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

• 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

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If you are eligible, and have not yet received your vaccination invitation, please contact the surgery to book in. 

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N.B. We are expecting children of School age to be given their Nasal Flu Spray by their school Nurse, but please contact the surgery if your child has missed this, or requires the Flu vaccination instead of the 'Live' Nasal Spray.

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RSV Immunisation programme - UPDATE

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms during the winter months. Babies under one year of age and older adults are at the greatest risk of hospitalisation with more severe respiratory disease.  

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A new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme runs from 1 September 2024, offered to older adults (75 to 79 years old) and to pregnant women to protect infants.

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Eligible patients should have received an SMS from us. If you would like to receive your vaccine, please contact us to book in.

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Advice for Pregnant women on how to protect your baby from RSV can be found here.

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For all other vaccines (e.g. Shingles), please contact the Surgery directly to check your eligibility and book yourself in.

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