Latest resources and updates September 2025

Flu 2025-2026

Community Pharmacy Colleagues

The Community Pharmacy Influenza vaccine (2 and 3 yrs of age) PGD is now available. This PGD is for the administration of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) nasal spray suspension as the first line vaccine and cell-cultured inactivated influenza vaccine (IIVc) to children aged 2 and 3 years old within a community pharmacy setting, in accordance with the childhood seasonal influenza vaccination advanced service specification and the national influenza immunisation programme.

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Please find the slides for the HWE & BLMK annual flu update here

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New resources for the 2025-2026 flu programme have been published:

1. Fu vaccination leaflets briefings for preschool/primary and secondary school aged children (with translations available shortly).  Also available are the “5 reasons to have the flu vaccine” posters and stickers – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-vaccination-leaflets-and-posters

2. Invitation letter and consent form for school age children – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-vaccination-in-schools

3. Invitation letter for children aged 2-3 years old – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-vaccination-invitation-letter-template-for-children-aged-2-3-and-4-years

4. The British Islamic Medical Association have also updated their materials (with translated versions available in due course).  Visit:  https://britishima.org/advice/flu/  

The National Flu Letter 2025_2026

5. Vaccine update: issue 362 August 2025 Flu special is now available.

The Flu healthcare professional information document was published recently.

So all of the key training materials for flu are all to hand, please also see the links to the e-learning and slide set.

Note that ‘the national flu immunisation programme for 2025 to 2026 slide set’ appears at the top of the 2025 to 2026 annual flu collection and is available to download.

East of England Training Resources

Training slides/certificates and recordings can all be accessed now using NHS Futures. You will need to sign up for an account and can then request access to the regional page.