The Lodge Surgery

The Lodge Surgery is offering a spring Covid booster for all eligible patients from 22nd April 2024.

These include:

• Patients aged 75 and over (or turning 75 before 30th June)
• Residents in care homes for older adults
• Patients aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system.

Please book an appointment for yourself or a family member by contacting the surgery on 01249 479809. Please note that our lines are much quieter in the afternoon.

Alternatively, you will receive an invitation to self-book.

The following people are eligible for a flu vaccine:

• All adults aged 65 and over (including those who will be 65 by 31 March 2024)
• People aged 6 months to under 65 years in a clinical risk group
• Pregnant women
• Residents in care homes
• Carers in receipt of carer's allowance or the main carer for an older or disabled person
• Close contacts of someone who is more likely to get a severe infection due to a weakened immune system (e.g. someone living with HIV, has had a transplant, or is having certain treatments for cancer, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis)

The following people are eligible for an autumn Covid booster:

• All adults aged 65 years and over
• People aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
• Pregnant women
• Residents and staff in care homes for older adults
• People aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression
• People aged 16 to 64 years who are carers
• Frontline health and social care workers

Covid Vaccine Information Leaflet