Eligible list
• Children aged two to eleven
• Patients aged 65 years or over
• Patients aged from six months to less than 65 years of age, in a clinical risk group such as those with:
– chronic (long-term) respiratory disease, such as severe asthma,
– chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or bronchitis
– chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
– chronic kidney disease at stage three, four or five
– chronic liver disease
– chronic neurological disease, such as Parkinson’s disease or motor neurone disease,
– learning disability
– diabetes
– splenic dysfunction or asplenia
– a weakened immune system due to disease (such as HIV/AIDS) or treatment (such as cancer)
– morbidly obese (defined as BMI of 40 and above)
• Pregnant women
• Household contacts of those on the NHS Shielded Patient List, or of immunocompromised individual
• Patients in long-stay residential care homes or other long-stay care facilities
• Carers
• Health and social care staff, who are directly involved in the care of vulnerable patients
Click here to read about flu vaccines on the NHS website.