What is a vaccine?
A vaccine is a type of medicine that trains the body’s immune system so that it can fight a disease it has not come into contact with before. Vaccines are designed to prevent disease, rather than treat a disease once you have caught it.
Child Immunisations
At the practice we follow the NHS children’s vaccination schedule. To view this on their website, please click here.
One of the most important child immunisations is the MMR vaccine. This protects children from Measles, Mumps and Rubella. The first dose of this vaccination is given to children from their 1st birthday. The second dose is given from the age of 3years4months. Please see further information about the MMR below.
Please see below the complete immunisation schedule of available health immunisations and their eligibility within the NHS.
Vaccines do work!
Adult Vaccinations
Influenza
The flu vaccine is an annual/seasonal vaccine, meaning it is given every year to the eligible population.
The practice can only vaccinate a limited number of patients each year. We invite eligible patients for this vaccine via text message or phone call. For further information on the flu vaccine please click here.
Shingles
The shingles vaccine comes in 2 doses and you only need this once in your lifetime.
The vaccine used for this is called Shingrix and is a NON LIVE vaccine. We invite eligible patients for this vaccine via text message or phone call. For more information on the shingles vaccine please click here.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
The RSV vaccine is a new NHS vaccination provided to those aged 75-79 and other eligible populations such as pregnant women.
We invite eligible patients for this vaccine via text message or phone call. For more information on the RSV vaccine please click here.
For extra information on vaccinations and conditions please see the table below, or please feel free to contact the practice.
