Flu Vaccination Reminder This Winter💉😷

Community_Scope
Community_Scope Posts: 2,489 Online Community Team
edited May 12 in Announcements and information

This is a reminder to protect yourself and those around you by getting your flu jab this autumn.

The vaccine is free for people with learning disabilities and helps prevent severe illness, GP visits and hospitalisations. It's especially important for those with long-term conditions to stay healthy, even if they manage their condition well!

You can book your flu vaccination through the national booking system, contact your GP, or visit a participating pharmacy. Easy read information is available to help you understand the benefits.

Support the programme and help keep our community healthy!

For more information, please visit this website.

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  • [Deleted User]
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  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community Member Posts: 673 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1080499#Comment_1080499

    I didn't even know they were still doing covid boosters! Do you get jabbed with both at the same time?!

  • sj2025
    sj2025 Community Member Posts: 698 Contributor

    do the gp surgery’s still invite people for a vivid jab in the same way they send a message to invite people who are eligible for the flu jab at the surgery, as I’ve had the flu jab at my gp surgery but I’ve been waiting to receive a text to go for a COVID jab but not received anything! Do they still do that or is it now something you have to get elsewhere

    I don’t want to be sat here waiting for a vivid invite, and no one is going lol. Does anyone know how it works these days

  • sj2025
    sj2025 Community Member Posts: 698 Contributor

    *covid. ( annoying when the phone changes words lol ) 😂 never heard of a vivid jab 😂

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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,417 Online Community Team

    @Biblioklept I had my flu and covid jabs done at the chemist at the same time. Quick and easy but my arm was a bit sore 😄

  • sj2025
    sj2025 Community Member Posts: 698 Contributor

    @Passerby thankyou for the phone info, it is annoying when you read your messages back and words have been changed 🤣 especially when you get messages back saying I have no idea what you are talking about 😂🤦‍♀️ Thanks also for the jab info, and thanks to everyone else for providing us all with information 🙂

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  • jonf
    jonf Community Member Posts: 467 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1080499#Comment_1080499

    had mine six weeks ago

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,366 Championing

    I keep getting messages saying I'm eligible to have the jabs because I'm in a vulnerable category.

    I ignore them.

    I have my reasons and I chose not to have them.

  • Annie015
    Annie015 Community Member Posts: 48 Contributor

    I had my flu jab as I have it every year due to having a heart condition and being vulnerable but was declined my covid and that just scares me

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,366 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1081233#Comment_1081233

    You could ask them why you were declined.

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  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,366 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1081289#Comment_1081289

    I did see your post but we can still ask for an explanation if they haven't given us one.

    Fair enough if they do give people explanations.

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  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,450 Championing

    I had the club jab this year but not the COVID booster because I was poorly the first time I had COVID-19 and only had it 3 times and I will never again have it.

  • onlymeagain
    onlymeagain Community Member Posts: 259 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1080494#Comment_1080494

    Most people go throughout their life never getting flu. What most people call flu, is actually a cold, albeit a bad cold in many cases, but simply a cold.
    With flu you will have a very high temperature and won't even be able to use a phone let alone go about your day. You'll be laid up in bed for many days. It's not until you have flu, that you realise how bad it really is and that it's not what most people believe is flu.
    The vaccine isn't isn't live, so you can't catch flu from it.
    I hope that moving forward your health will improve. X

  • onlymeagain
    onlymeagain Community Member Posts: 259 Empowering
    edited November 2025

    I had flu when I was 16. It was truly awful. Thankfully at 53 I've never had it again. I got Covid before the vaccines, in fact before we had heard of it, and although I was extremely ill, at least I made it out of bed.
    I started having the flu jab after that, then stopped as I was fit and healthy, but have had it the last few years since I am no longer young, fit, nor healthy. Whether it's needed I'm not sure, but I don't have any issues or reactions to it so might as well.
    I had mine a couple of weeks ago and didn't even get a sore arm this time.

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