Latest resources and updates May 2025

Letter announcing childhood schedule changes that take place from 1 July 25 and 1 January 2026

Please familiarise yourself with the schedule changes outlined in the letter published May 2025.

There will be further updates from the screening and immunisation team communicated in due course.

The HBLMK Practice Nurse Deep dive training slides are now available.

Vaccine Update

Vaccine update: issue 357 April 2025

COVID-19

The Spring COVID-19 vaccination programme began on 1 April 2025 and the campaign will end on 17 June 2025. The following groups should be offered a COVID-19 vaccine:
• all adults aged 75 years and over including individuals aged 74 who will have their75th birthday before the campaign ends
• residents in a care home for older adults
• individuals aged 6 months and over who are immunocompromised, as defined in the ‘immunosuppression’ sections of tables 3 and 4 of the Green Book chapter 14a

Priority should be given to older adult care homes and eligible housebound patients.

National Flu Letter

The National Flu Letter 2025_2026 has been published, all practices should ensure they have ordered adequate first line flu vaccine stock before the campaign starts.

Vaccine Incident Poster

The new Vaccine Incident poster is available on the Vaccine and Cold Chain Incident Management page