Vaccination updates
Updates on our vaccination plans and progress in North Wales
January 13 2025
It’s not too late to protect yourself and those you love against flu and COVID-19
Flu, COVID-19 and other winter viruses continue to circulate the community, and are causing nasty illnesses for large numbers of people.
Since December 23, more than 300 inpatients at our hospitals have tested positive for flu. This is the highest level of flu infections at our hospitals since December 2022.
From today, all adults eligible for the NHS flu vaccine can walk into one of our community vaccination centres to boost their protection against serious illness without an appointment.
Eligible adults include people aged 65 or over, people with underlying health conditions, pregnant women and health and social care workers. Full details of eligibility for the NHS flu vaccine are available here. Full details of eligibility for the COVID-19 booster are available here.
The vaccine can reduce your chances you catching the flu, lessen the severity of symptoms if you do, and decrease the likelihood of you of passing the virus on to others. It helps to protect the wider community from outbreaks, and reduces the pressure on local NHS services.
If you have already received an invitation to have your NHS flu vaccine at your GP surgery, please attend this appointment as planned. GP surgeries and local school immunisation teams will also continue to offer the painless nasal spray flu vaccine for children.
Walk-in COVID-19 booster clinics for all eligible adults are already available without an appointment at our community vaccination centres. If you are eligible, you may receive both vaccines at the same time.
We urge anyone who is eligible but has not yet received the flu or COVID-19 vaccines to take up the opportunity to reduce their risk of serious illness.
More information about eligibility for the vaccines and further details about our walk-in vaccination clinic locations, dates and times, is available here.
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