As you can see, the criteria are similar to the spring 2022 and spring 2023 booster campaigns, but this year the criteria for the immunosuppressed group has lowered to include those 6 months and over. The eligibility is the same across the four nations of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and ...

April 12, 2024 - Published 3 March 2022 Last updated 12 April 2024 + show all updates ... Added link to Braille version. ... Added links to audio, British Sign Language and large print versions. ... Added spring 2024 campaign resources and removed spring 2023 resources. ... Added links to accessible versions. ... Added links to translated versions. ... Added updated guide for 2023 spring booster...

In February, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised a spring 2022 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for: ... Everyone who is eligible can make a spring booster appointment between 3 and 6 months after their primary course of doses. You may receive a letter from the national ...

Five million eligible people, including over 75s and those aged five and over with a weakened immune system, are now able to book their spring Covid vaccine booster. Here’s everything you need to know about the rollout. Am I eligible …

November 24, 2020 - Those most at risk from Covid across the UK are being offered a spring booster by the NHS.

When COVID-19 booster doses are available, they will be offered to people who are at increased risk from COVID-19 following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). This might be because of their age or a health condition. Read the JCVI interim advice for the COVID-19 vaccination programme for 2023 on GOV.UK...

April 12, 2024 - You will be given a booster dose of a vaccine made by Pfizer or Moderna and approved in the UK. These vaccines have been updated since the original vaccines and target a different COVID-19 variant. These updated vaccines boost protection well, and give slightly higher levels of antibody against the more recent strains of COVID-19 (Omicron). As we cannot predict which variants of COVID-19 will be circulating this spring ...

February 7, 2024 - Figure 1: weekly hospital admission rate (November 2022 to October 2023) by age group for new COVID-19 positive cases reported through SARI Watch. Data on hospital admission rates in the UK is consistent with the clinical risk being highest in those aged 75 years and older.

September 3, 2022 - Novavax Matrix-M adjuvanted wild-type ... suitable UK-approved COVID-19 vaccine is available (see the Green Book) In the previous advice published on 15 August it was noted that the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA bivalent vaccine was under assessment by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This assessment has now been completed and the vaccine authorised for use as a booster in this age group as of 2 September 2022...

Thank you for your ongoing work ... the 2022 autumn COVID-19 booster and flu campaign. We achieved 17 million COVID-19 and over 20 million flu vaccines, alongside continued delivery of routine immunisation programmes. Your efforts continue to save lives. The government has accepted interim JCVI advice which states the NHS should plan for an extra booster vaccine dose in spring 2023 and an ...

February 8, 2023 - On 21 February 2022, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended a “spring dose” of Covid-19 vaccine should be offered, approximately 6 months after the last Covid-19 vaccine dose, to: ... The then Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, later confirmed that all four UK nations intended to follow the JCVI’s advice. The spring booster ...

People at greatest risk of serious illness from Covid, including care home residents, over 65s and frontline health and social care workers, are eligible for an autumn vaccine booster. Here’s everything you need to know. Am I eligible for an …

Our modelling demonstrates that the autumn 2022/spring 2023 booster campaign reduced COVID-19-associated morbidity and mortality. Booster campaigns with alternative eligibility criteria warrant consideration in the UK, given their potential to further reduce morbidity and mortality as future ...

Find out if you’re eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination and how to get it.

The NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme is the fastest and largest in health service history and has delivered more than 138 million vaccines since England became the first country in the world to deliver it outside of a trial. Earlier this year, more than four in five eligible people received a spring booster...

January 25, 2023 - The 2022 COVID-19 autumn booster vaccination campaign commenced in early September last year. The most recent coverage data (15 January 2023) of the autumn booster programme in those aged 50 years and over is 64.5% and 82.4% in those aged 75 years and over. By the end of summer 2022, the coverage of the 2022 spring ...

January 27, 2023 - In November 2021, JCVI advised boosters for healthy adults aged 40 to 49 years due to the epidemiology at the time. With the emergence of the Omicron variant in late November 2021, the offer was extended to healthy individuals aged 16 to 39 years as part of an emergency surge response (see JCVI update on advice for COVID-19 vaccination of children and young people and UK vaccine response to the Omicron variant: JCVI advice). Since April 2022...

June 8, 2022 - The NHS is here for you. If you are feeling unwell, or need urgent care, it’s important that you are able to access the treatment you need. In the case of a life-threatening emergency, always call 999.

May 19, 2022 - Vaccine body says extra jab will be for most vulnerable adults, frontline social care and health workers

From today (7 September 2022), around four million people most vulnerable to Covid-19 will start to be invited to book in their autumn booster vaccine as the NHS’ National Booking Service launches appointments for Autumn boosters.