Flu Season 2025/2026
We will be contacting those eligible shortly and offering appointments for children under 18yrs in September and anyone else eligible will be offered appointments in October.
Care Homes and patients that are housebound will be contacted and offered a vaccination in October.
Eligible are –
- All frontline health and social care workers.
- Everyone aged 65 years and over.
- Everyone under 65 years of age who has a medical condition, including children and babies over 6 months of age.
- All pregnant women, at any stage of pregnancy.
- All children aged 2 and 3 years (provided they were aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August before flu vaccinations starts in the autumn).
- All children in primary school ( they will be invited to have the vaccination at the school).
- Some secondary school-aged children (Years 7 to 11) (They will be invited to have at school).
- Everyone living in a residential or nursing home.
- Everyone who receives a carer’s allowance, or are the main carer for an older or disabled person.
- All those living with someone who has lowered immunity due to disease or treatment.
- For more information about the FLU vaccine click here.
Children’s flu vaccine:
The children’s flu vaccine helps protect against flu. It’s offered to children aged 2 to 3 years, school-aged children (Reception to Year 11) and children with certain long-term health conditions.
Information:
This page is about the flu vaccine for children. There’s separate information about the flu vaccine for adults and the flu jab in pregnancy.
Why children are offered the flu vaccine
Flu can be very unpleasant for children and can sometimes cause serious problems, such as pneumonia.
Each winter in the UK, thousands of children who do not have a health condition need hospital care because of flu.
Children can catch and spread flu easily. Vaccinating them also helps protect others who are at higher risk of getting seriously ill from flu, such as babies, anyone who’s pregnant and older people.
Who should have the children’s flu vaccine
The children’s flu vaccine is offered on the NHS every year in autumn or early winter.
It’s recommended for:
children aged 6 months to 17 years with certain long-term health conditions
children aged 2 or 3 years
school-aged children (Reception to Year 11)
For more information click here.