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PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SURGERY
We know that other providers like pharmacies and supermarkets offer flu jabs to patients.
Like all other practices, we rely on funding from each flu jab we give to help cover running costs and to keep the practice viable and maintain services
Every single flu jab you have elsewhere means loss of funding for your GP surgery.
Please support your local surgery by having your flu jab with us.
By choosing us, you will be vaccinated in a properly equipped consulting room or treatment room by a qualified member of our Nursing or GP Team; who will have access to your medical records and are properly equipped for emergencies
By having your flu jab with us, you are ensuring that crucial resources stay with your GP surgery.
Eligible groups
You can have the flu jab if you are in these groups:
Long term lung conditions
Asthmatics who take regular inhaled or oral steroids or who have had hospital admissions for asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Bronchiectasis
Cystic fibrosis
Lung fibrosis
Pneumoconiosis (Dust)
Long term heart or circulation conditions
Congenital heart disease
Heart failure
Heart attack, angina and other ischaemic heart disease
Peripheral vascular (circulation) disease
Rheumatic heart disease
Cardiomyopathy
Long term neurological (brain/nerve) conditions
Stroke
TIA ('mini-stroke')
Parkinson's disease
Multiple sclerosis
Cerebral palsy
Muscular dystrophy
Dementia
Spinal disease or paralysis affecting lung function
Myaesthenia
Learning disability
Long term kidney conditions
Kidney failure
Kidney impairment
Kidney transplant
Long term liver conditions
Hepatitis
Cirrhosis
Liver transplant
Endocrine (hormonal) conditions
Diabetic patients on diet only, oral drugs or injections
Pituitary gland disorders
Addison's disease (lack of natural body steroids)
Reduced immunity due to medical conditions or drugs
No spleen (e.g. due to injury or illness)
On long term steroids
On cytotoxic or immunity suppressing drugs e.g., rheumatoid arthritis injections, active or recent cancer treatment
HIV infection or AIDS
Coeliac disease (wheat intolerance)
Systemic lupus
Certain blood disorders and blood cancers
Pregnant women
All currently pregnant women at any stage of pregnancy
Age or circumstance
Anybody aged 65 years and over including those becoming 65 by March 31st 2020
Long stay residential care homes patients
Carers who are in receipt of a carer's allowance, main carers, or those carers who regularly look after a person whose welfare would be at risk if they (the carer) become ill
Morbidly obese patients i.e., BMI of 40 or above
Consideration will be given to vaccinating those who are in the same household as someone with a severely suppressed immune system - cases will be considered individually and vaccination is not guaranteed
Children aged 2 to 3 years (date of birth between September 1st 2015 and August 31st 2017 inclusive) - download an information leaflet
Not eligible
The following groups cannot have a flu jab at the surgery
Professional carers
Professional carers, health or social care workers who are otherwise not in any of the above eligible groups should contact their employer (or their occupational health department) who will have their own arrangements for administering flu jabs to their workers
Previous conditions with full recovery or which are now stable
Patients who have previously had chest infections with no residual long term problems are not at any more risk of respiratory complications from developing flu than that of the general population
Patients who have previously had treatment for cancer and are now either recovered or stable with no active ongoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatment
Babies under 6 months of age
Flu jabs are not recommended in children in this age group even in the presence of at-risk conditions
Children who are going to be vaccinated at school
Children in primary school (date of birth between September 1st 2008 and August 31st 2015 inclusive) will be invited separately and vaccinated at school - download an information leaflet (NB: children with at-risk conditions can be vaccinated at the surgery)
Non-eligible patients wishing the flu jab privately
Unfortunately, though we would be happy to do so, unfair and restrictive clauses in our contract mean that, unlike other organisations, we are not permitted to offer flu jabs to any of our non-eligible patients privately - if you wish to challenge this, please contact your MP
INFORMATION ABOUT ELIGIBILITY
Department of Health guidance forms the main basis for the eligibility criteria shown above. Criteria are subject to change according to latest medical guidance and eligibility for flu jabs is at the discretion of the doctor based on his or her clinical judgement
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