Cold & Flu
Eligibilty for Flu Jab 2021-2022
- Those age 5o years and over
- All chideren aged 2-15 on 31 August 2021
- Those aged 6 months to under 50 years in clinical risk groups
- Preganat woman
- Those in long-stay residential care homes
- Close contacts of immunocompromised
- Frontline health and social car staff employed by:
- A registered residential care or nursing home
- Registered domciliary care provider
- A voluntary managed hospice provider
- Direct payment (personal budgets) and/or personal
- Health Budgets, such as personal assistant
Clinically at risks group
- Respiratory condtions, sha as asthma (needing steroid inhaler or tablets), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including emphysema and bronchitis
- Diabetes
- Heart conditions, such as heart disease or heart failure
- Being overweight - a body mass idex (BMI) of 40 or above
- Chronic kidney disease
- Liver disease, such as hepatitis
- Neurological condtions, such as Parkinsons's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), or Cerevral palsy, stroke
- A learning disability
- Problems with your spleen, for example, sickle cell, or if you have had spleen removed
- A weakened immune system as the results of condtions such as HIV & AIDS, or taling medicines such as sterios or chemotherapy