Flu and COVID-19 - 2025/26

Resources to promote the 2025/26 flu and COVID-19 vaccination programme.

From September 2025, children aged 2-3 and pregnant women can receive their flu vaccine.

From 1 October 2025, the NHS will offer vaccines for flu and COVID-19 to the following groups of eligible patients:

Covid-19 vaccination:

residents in a care home for older adults
All adults aged 75 years and over
Persons aged 6 months to 74 years and have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment

Flu vaccination:

those aged 65 years and over
those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
pregnant women
all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025
primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
those in long-stay residential care homes
carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants