2024-25 Autumn / Winter Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Campaign

In line with government guidance, the main 2024-25 autumn / winter flu and COVID-19 seasonal vaccination campaign commences in early October.

The following groups are eligible for both vaccinations:

• Residents in a care home for older adults;
• All adults aged 65 years and over;
• Persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group.

Woolpit Health Centre will be running clinics throughout October and November. Eligible patients will receive an invitation via SMS, email or letter.

Housebound patients will be notified of their vaccination date by telephone.

During this busy time, we try hard to minimise disruption to our core primary care services. This includes protecting our Care Navigation / Reception team so that they can remain focused on supporting patients who need triaging into urgent and routine appointments.

We have a small number of staff who are dedicated to managing our vaccination programmes. During the season they handle large numbers of telephone and email enquiries.

Request to Patients

1. Please wait for your invitation via SMS, email or letter.
2. Upon receipt please only contact the team if you need to change your appointment or cannot use the SMS booking link.
3. Our preference is for email contact as this keeps the phone line free and is an efficient way to communicate. Our email address is covid19queries@nhs.net.
4. If you need to phone our vaccine line the number is 01359 243941.
5. Throughout September, a member of the vaccine team will be available in reception between the hours of 10:00 -12:00 Mondays and Fridays.
6. Finally, we ask you please to be patient, whichever way you contact us we will get back to you. There is no need to leave multiple messages, this only slows down our responses. Be reassured, we have plenty of vaccine and plenty of appointments.

We look forward to another successful vaccination season.