Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Programme: autumn/winter 2024/25 - announcement from NHS England

Vaccination is a high priority action for the NHS, to protect people from serious illness and to support NHS and adult social care resilience.
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Ensuring that eligible people receive high quality information about vaccination from people they trust, and providing a convenient offer in which people have confidence, are critical actions to maximise protection.
The government has accepted final advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) regarding a COVID-19 autumn/winter 2024/25 vaccination programme.
The groups to be offered a COVID-19 vaccine in autumn/winter 2024/25 are:
  • 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, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Green Book on immunisation against infectious disease