Covid-19 Booster Vaccinations
As you are probably aware, if someone is in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, or is the main Carer of an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the Carer falls ill, they are eligible for the booster vaccination. If Carers haven’t been invited to attend their surgery for their booster, six months since their second covid-19 vaccination, please advise them to book via this link or call 119.The flu vaccination programme is also now underway which we encourage Carers to receive. The Covid-19 booster and the flu vaccine can be given on the same day and there may be opportunities to have both vaccinations together.
Walk-in Boosters
You can get a booster vaccination from a walk-in site if it's been 6 months (182 days) since your second dose and you're either aged 50 or over, or aged 16 and over with a health condition that puts you at high risk from COVID-19.If you have a condition that means you're at higher risk from Covid-19, you’ll be sent a letter reminding you to have your booster dose. You can then take this letter, or a letter from your GP or consultant about your health condition, to any walk-in vaccination site from 6 months since the day of your second vaccine.Frontline health and social care workers aged 16 and over can also get a booster dose from a walk-in site. Just take along proof of your employment such as workplace photo ID, a letter or a payslip from your employer within the last three months.
Latest Vaccine News
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that all adults aged 40 to 49 years should be offered an mRNA booster, 6 months after their second dose, irrespective of the vaccines given for the first and second doses. It has also been advised that all 16- to 17-year-olds who are not in an at-risk group should be offered a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The second vaccine dose should be given 12 weeks or more following the first vaccine dose.