03/09/2026
Good evening,
The weather outside makes this post feel a lot more appropriate than it was a few days ago.
We are getting asked more and more often about when our flu and COVID service starts.
The NHS will only allow us to vaccinate eligible patients from the 1st October, with the exception of flu for pregnant women. So unless you’re pregnant, we couldn’t vaccinate you on the NHS scheme m, even if we had vaccine.
The 1st October is a Thursday, so once I’ve received my first delivery of flu vaccine I will confirm this as a start date. If the vaccine is delayed (some manufacturers are warning of this) we may start the following week.
So there’s no need to panic. We should be able to offer walk in flu and COVID vaccinations, but will also add appointments to the NHS system for those who prefer to book. Please note that the NHS decide our COVID allocation so we will just have to work with whatever they send us.
We do everything we can to avoid letting people down. I could confidently promise that we will have vaccine and put loads of appointments on the booking system, but there’s little point in that if we have to cancel due to delays in supply. I’ll post more information shortly once I know for certain that we will have the vaccine. And once we do, you can be sure that we will have enough to meet the demand.
Once we have vaccine, we will be able to vaccinate patients not eligible for the NHS services, privately. This year flu jabs will be £19 and COVID jabs £90. This is likely to be from mid September onwards.
Thanks
