Vaccination eligibility: in-depth
Eligibility for this winter's flu vaccination and Covid-19 boosters
Those eligible for the NHS flu vaccine programme 2022-23
- All children aged 2 or 3 years
- All primary school-aged children (mostly provided at school)
- Secondary school-aged children focusing on years 7, 8 and 9.
- Any remaining vaccine will be offered to years 10 and 11, subject to vaccine availability*
- Those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups – see below
- Pregnant women
- Those aged 65 years and over, plus those aged 50 to 64 years not in clinical risk groups (from mid-October onwards)*
- Those in long-stay residential care homes
- Carers
- Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- Frontline staff employed by certain social care providers without employer-led occupational health schemes
*additions made July 2022 - see the Government website for more details.
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The following groups should be offered a Covid-19 booster vaccine, aiming to complete by December 2022:
- All adults aged 50 years and over
- Persons aged 5 to 49 years in a clinical risk group – see below
- Persons aged 5 to 49 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression
- Persons aged 16 to 49 years who are carers
- Residents in a care home for older adults
- Staff working in care homes for older adults
- Frontline health and social care workers
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