Flu Vaccinations

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!!!! FLU vaccinations !!!!

We would like to inform our patients that we will be running FLU vaccination clinics at the Surgery from Mid-September.

Patients who are eligible will be contacted via text with a self-booking link over the next few weeks. Simply follow the link and book your appointment.

Please wait to receive your text to make your booking, this is to ensure our phonelines remain free for patients who need to contact us with a health concern.

For those patients that do not have a mobile phone, then we will aim to contact you via phone or letter.

There are also some appointments available online so those patient with access will be able to go online via patient access or NHS app etc and book their own appointment.

Flu vaccines have been reserved for our eligible patients.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CAMPAIGN THIS YEAR DOES NOT EXTEND TO 50-64 YEAR OLDS THAT DO NOT FIT INTO A CATEGORY BELOW –

You should have the flu vaccination at the surgery if you are:

  • Over 65 years old
  • Pregnant
  • A Carer
  • Children aged 2 or 3 years on 31st August.
  • A close contact of an immunocompromised individual
  • Frontline health and social care staff 

Or have a long-term condition such as:

  • Chronic respiratory disease
  • Chronic heart disease and vascular disease
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Chronic liver disease
  • Chronic neurological disease
  • Diabetes and adrenal insufficiency
  • Immunosuppression
  • Asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen
  • Morbid obesity

PLEASE NOTE COVID VACCINATION CLINICS WILL BE RUNNING SEPERATLEY STARTING IN OCTOBER AND WILL BE HELD AT KIDDERMINSTER MEDICAL CENTRE AND STOURPORT MEDICAL CENTRE.

ELIGIBLE PATIENTS WILL RECEIVE A SEPARATE INVITE FOR THIS.