There is a new vaccination known as RSV offered by the practice this winter to patients aged 75 years old from 1st Sept 2024 and given until the day before a patients 80th Birthday.
This vaccine is a vaccine to prevent the very severe symptoms of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), or the common cold,
which to those patients aged 75 and over can make you very unwell, breathless and develop into pneumonia.
This illness also causes bronchiolitis, which can make small babies very unwell. This vaccine is also offered to pregnant women by their midwives. If your midwife cannot arrange it for you she will refer you back to the surgery but we should not vaccinate without the midwife screening you first.
You will receive an invitation to have the vaccination via a link/text or a call from the surgery.
The vaccine cannot be given the same time as other vaccines -so you would need to wait 14 days before having a Flu or COVID vaccine. Please find more information on the link below: