The groups eligible for flu vaccination in the 2024 to 2025 flu season
- all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024
- all primary school aged children (from reception to year 6)
- secondary school-aged children (years 7, 8 ,9, 10 and 11)
- those aged 6 months to under 18 years in clinical risk groups (as defined in the Green Book, Chapter 19 (Influenza))
- pregnant women
- those aged 65 years and over (including those who are 64 but will be 65 on or before 31 March 2025)
- those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined in the Green Book, Chapter 19 (Influenza))
- those in long-stay residential care homes and other long-stay care facilities where rapid spread is likely to follow introduction of infection and cause high morbidity and mortality (this does not include, for example, prisons, young offender institutions, university halls of residence)
- carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
- close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- frontline workers in a social care setting without employer led occupational health schemes including those working for:
- a registered residential care or nursing home
- registered domiciliary care providers
- voluntary managed hospice providers
- those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health Budgets, such as Personal Assistants
The following groups are eligible for Autumn 2024 COVID-19 Vaccination
- adults aged 65 years and over
- residents in a care home for older adults
- individuals aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group (as defined in tables 3 or 4 in the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book)
- frontline NHS and social care workers, and those working in care homes for older people