COVID-19 vaccination

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From 1 April – 17 June 2025 the NHS is offering a seasonal COVID-19 vaccination to people at highest risk from a COVID infection. This includes:

adults aged 75 years and over.
residents in care homes for older adults.
people aged over 6 months and immunosuppressed (as defined in tables 3 or 4 in chapter 14a of the NHS COVID-19 Green Book) such as diabetes, heart disease, some neurological diseases, liver disease or a weakened immune system (for instance due to being prescribed steroids or treated for cancer).

This includes those who will turn 75 years old by 17 June 2025. They will be eligible for a vaccination at any point in the campaign. Those who are new residents in an older adult care home or become immunosuppressed by 17 June 2025 are also eligible.

Check your eligibility on the NHS website

The importance of the Covid-19 and Flu vaccines

Getting your COVID-19 vaccination

The National Booking System opens from 25 March 2025, for appointments starting on 1 April. You may also be contacted by your GP surgery and invited to book an appointment. If you are eligible, other alternatives include attending a walk-in vaccination site, or you could get vaccinated at another local service such as a community pharmacy, or at your care home (if you live in a care home).

Walk-in Covid-19 vaccination clinics

A series of walk-in vaccination clinics are available for the spring 2025 campaign. Details of these can be found here on our website and there is also an NHS walk-in finder with further information.

Important information

You do not have to be registered with a GP, have an NHS number or be documented in order to have your vaccination, if you are eligible. If you are in this position, please attend a walk-in clinic or contact a GP to book your vaccination, explaining your situation.

When you come for your vaccination, please bring your NHS number if you know it, and remember to eat and drink before your appointment.

Please do not come for your vaccination if you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have had a positive lateral flow test. If you have tested positive for COVID-19 you must wait seven days, and be in good health, or your vaccination may be less effective.

Housebound COVID-19 vaccinations

In our area, GP surgeries are arranging for people who are housebound to get their COVID-19 vaccination and will contact their patients, directly. If you or a family member are housebound and eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination and you have not heard from your GP, please contact your surgery.

Please note that your GP may not contact their housebound patients straight away, as they have a lot of people to vaccinate.

If you are housebound, have spoken with your GP and have not been able to book a vaccination, please email bnssg.massvaccination@nhs.net with your name, GP surgery, and the reason for not being able to book your vaccination.

If you are not registered with your GP as housebound but you feel you should be, please contact your surgery so they can update their records. If you are not registered as housebound, you will need to attend the GP site or use the National Booking Service to book your vaccination.

Revaccination: Year-round vaccination for people who become severely immunosuppressed

If you have received a bone marrow transplant or had chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, you may need to repeat your first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccination (known as revaccination).

If you have started treatment that severely weakens your immune system please check with your clinical specialist and if you need to be revaccinated, please contact your GP first, then email vaccinations@nbt.nhs.net to arrange an appointment if required.