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COVID-19 vaccination

From 3 October 2024 – 31 January 2025 the NHS is offering a seasonal COVID-19 vaccination to people at highest risk from a COVID infection. This includes:

  • adults aged 65 years and over.
  • residents in care homes for older adults.
  • people aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group (as defined in tables 3 or 4 in the COVID-19 chapter 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).
  • pregnant women.
  • frontline NHS and social care workers.

For this year’s autumn programme, the COVID-19 vaccine will not be offered to unpaid carers and household contacts of people with immunosuppression in England. You may also be eligible for a free flu vaccination.

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 closed on 20 December 2024. However, Covid-19 and flu vaccines are still available at a number of pharmacy and clinic sites throughout January and we would encourage you to continue to come forward for your vaccine.

You can find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site at a pharmacy via the NHS website, or attend a local walk-in clinic.

Walk-in Covid-19 and flu vaccination clinics

If you’re eligible and aged over 18, you can get a Covid-19 and/or a flu vaccination without an appointment at one of the following walk-in clinics.

St Werburghs Community Centre

Horley Rd, St Werburgh’s, Bristol BS2 9TJ

Vaccination clinic open from 10:30am to 5:30pm on the following dates:

  • Tuesday 7 January 2025

  • Tuesday 14 January 2025

  • Tuesday 21 January 2025

  • Tuesday 28 January 2025

Easton Community Centre

Kilburn St, Easton, Bristol BS5 6AW

Vaccination clinic open on the following dates/times:

  • Saturday 11 January 2025 – 10:30am to 5:30pm
  • Wednesday 15 January 2025 – 11am to 3pm
  • Saturday 25 January 2025 – 10:30am to 5:30pm
  • Thursday 30 January – 10:30am to 5:30pm

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 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 28 days before you are vaccinated if you are over 18 and 12 weeks if you are under 18.

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 email vaccinations@nbt.nhs.net to arrange an appointment.

Immunosuppressed definition

For the purposes of the spring COVID-19 top-up campaign 2024, those who are severely immunosuppressed are defined in Tables 3 and 4 of the NHS COVID-19 Green Book. Please note that fewer people who are immunosuppressed are eligible for a top-up Covid-19 vaccine this spring than in autumn 2023.