Book your COVID-19 or flu booster from today

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will roll out the national COVID-19 booster and flu vaccination programme from Thursday, October 3.

Vaccination is the best protection against these two viruses, which spread more easily in winter when individuals spend more time indoors together.

The winter vaccine programme focuses on those at greatest risk of getting seriously ill.

Those eligible for vaccinations this year are:

COVID-19

• Adults aged 65 years and over
• Residents in a care home for older adults
• Individuals aged six months to 64 years in a clinical risk groups
• Frontline NHS and social care workers, and those working in care homes for older people

Flu

• Children aged two and three years on 31 August 2024
• Eligible school-aged children (Reception to Year 11)
• Individuals aged six months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
• Pregnant women
• Adults aged 65 years and over
• Those in long-stay residential care homes
• Carers, those in receipt of carer’s allowance, or the main carer of an older or disabled person
• Household contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• Frontline health and social care workers

The national booking system for public clinics also opened today for appointments between Thursday, October 3, and Friday, December 2.

You will be invited for your booster.

Your GP may offer you the vaccine, or you can book it through the NHS app for Apple or Android. 

You can also find your nearest walk-in vaccination site on the NHS website.

Carolyn Mills, Chief Nursing Officer at the Royal Devon, said: “Vaccination plays a huge part in keeping the most vulnerable people well through the autumn and winter, and we urge everyone who is eligible to come forward and have theirs.”

Please see NHS Royal Devon’s website for details of their vaccination sites, and visit their online vaccination calendar for the most up-to-date clinic dates.