Flu Vaccination: Protect Yourself and Your Patients

Stats last updated: 16 October 2025

Getting your flu vaccination is one of the most important things you can do as a healthcare worker this winter. Check out autumn/ winter 2025/26 progress across the North East and Yorkshire below.

Fortnightly releases showing flu vaccinations and uptake for frontline healthcare workers started on 16 October and are published here: Statistics » Vaccinations: Flu

The challenge we’re facing
Flu vaccination rates among healthcare staff are declining. In 2024/25, less than 38% of NHS staff were vaccinated. In social care, rates were even lower — below 15% for care home staff.

Why flu vaccination matters

    • Last winter, around 8,000 people died from flu in England.
    • Vaccination prevented 96,000–120,200 hospitalisations.
    • Healthcare workers are more likely to catch and spread flu.
    • Even healthy people can have flu without symptoms and pass it on

How effective is the vaccine?

The flu vaccine:

  • Makes symptoms milder and shorter if you do catch flu.
  • Protects for up to 3 months after vaccination.

Take a look at the progress being made across our region — and hear directly from staff on why they chose to get vaccinated.

▼ Big #TeamCHFT effort sees 1,200 colleagues vaccinated against flu in just a week (9 Oct)

In just one week, almost 1,200 colleagues across Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust have been given their flu vaccine. The vaccine has given them, the people they work with, care for, as well as family and loved ones, vital protection against flu this winter. Read more here.

 

▼ 10% of DBTH colleagues vaccinated against flu in first week of campaign (14 Oct)  

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) has vaccinated 10% of colleagues against flu in just the first week of its annual winter vaccination campaign. To make it easy for colleagues to get protected, DBTH is offering regular drop-in clinics, roving vaccinators visiting wards and departments, and specially nominated colleagues within clinical areas who can vaccinate their own teams. Read more here.

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