Flu Vaccination Reminder This Winter💉😷
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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I'll never get a flu vaccination ever again!
Last year, late November, I got a flu jab.
Guess what - I got a flu once every 40 days or so for the 8 months that followed!
I usually catch flu once every two years or so.
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I can't wait for my flu jab, and hopefully another Covid booster. Roll on next month!
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I didn't even know they were still doing covid boosters! Do you get jabbed with both at the same time?!
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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
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*covid. ( annoying when the phone changes words lol ) 😂 never heard of a vivid jab 😂
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I thought it was a new jab!
To stop autocomplete when typing, which is annoying at times, this is what you can do, if you have a Samsung device:
OpenSettings, thenGeneral management, and selectSamsung Keyboard settings.TapSmart typing.Toggle offPredictive text.
And for an iPhone, the following is what you need to do:
Open theSettingsapp on your iPhone.TapGeneral.TapKeyboard.Toggle off"Predictive"to disable the word suggestions above the keyboard.Toggle off"Auto-Correction"to prevent your iPhone from automatically changing misspelled words.If you still see inline suggestions, find and toggle off"Show Predictions Inline".
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GP surgeries and other local NHS services still invite people for the COVID-19 jab, but only for specific, highly vulnerable groups as part of the Autumn/Winter 2025/26 vaccination programme
"Who is eligible for a free NHS COVID-19 jab (Autumn/Winter 2025/26)?
Following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the free NHS COVID-19 vaccination is focused only on those at the highest risk of severe illness:Adults aged 75 and over(including those who will turn 75 by January 31, 2026).Residents in a care home for older adults.Individuals aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppresseddue to a health condition or treatment (as defined in the Green Book, Chapter 14a)."
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@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 😄
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Glad it was quick and easy for you, Rachel.
For others reading, if you have a complex or compromised immune system it is important to check with your GP or consultant before heading to the chemist. I am classed as Clinically Extremely Vulnerable and, like many others, I have been advised never to have these jabs due to the nature of my immune system. I have been told to contact the hospital directly if I become ill with flu or COVID.
This is not a criticism of the advice being given by Scope, just a reminder that personal medical guidance really does matter, especially as chemists do not have access to your full medical history.
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Very valid point @MW123. I have a compromised immune system and was invited to get them done by my doctor. When I was invited to book an appointment, one of the options was for the local chemist.
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@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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It happened to me, too. I was once asked whether my phone was hacked. I said Russians might have been messing up my phone thinking I was a Ukrainian spy. Trust me, I couldn't understand what I wrote in my Whatsapp message myself due to the extent autocomplete had messed up what I was trying to write!
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Same never will i had the worst flu about 7 years ago i was bed bound i was so ill but my body fought it
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had mine six weeks ago
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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.
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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
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You could ask them why you were declined.
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It's no longer for everone.
See my earlier post on who's eligible for the 2025 COVID-19 vaccine, or Autumn Booster.
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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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GPs in the UK are not formally required to provide a detailed, individual explanation to every patient as to why they are not eligible for a free NHS COVID-19 jab in 2025. Instead, they follow the national eligibility criteria set by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and the NHS.
The national eligibility criteria for 2025 is that the vaccination program has narrowed eligibility to focus on those at the highest risk of severe illness, specifically individuals aged 75 and over, residents in care homes for older adults, and those who are immunosuppressed (aged 6 months and over).
And the reason why everyone in the UK can't have a COVID-19 jab in 2025 is because the virus has become a relatively mild disease for most people, and the vaccination programme is now targeted specifically at those at the highest risk of serious illness, hospitalisation, or death.
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