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Influenza Information
Our seasonal flu vaccination programme is now coming to an end. If you feel that you should have been offered the vaccine and haven't yet had the vaccine please contact our reception staff. Below is a list of the "at risk groups":
The national policy is that flu vaccine should be offered to the following groups of patients :
- All patients aged 65 and over
- All those aged over 6 months and in a clinical risk group :
- Chronic respiratory disease and asthma that requires continuous use of inhaled steroids
- Coronary heart disease
- Chronic renal disease
- Chronic liver disease
- Diabetes
- Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment, including patients undergoing chemotherapy, patients who have had a splenectomy, patients treated with or likely to be treated with systemic steroids for more than 1 month at a dose equivalent to Prednisolone at 20mgs or more per day.
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinsons disease
- Motor neurone disease
- Patients living in long stay residential/nursing care homes
- Main carers of elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill.
If you have an egg allergy you are advised to speak to the practice nurse in the first instance.