WESTERN VALE FAMILY PRACTICE WINTER VACCINATION CLINICS & INFORMATION
  • We will be focusing on RSV & Flu Vaccinations at our Winter vaccination weekend clinics:
  Clinic Location How to Book
Saturday 5 October 2024 Adult Flu Llantwit Health Centre Book via automated telephone system 01446 500 562
Saturday 12 October 2024 Adult Flu Cowbridge Health Centre Book via automated telephone system 01446 500 562

 

Weekday appointments are now available across Cowbridge, Llantwit and St Athan to book via the automated telephone system Tel 01446 500562.

HOUSEBOUND PATIENTS

  • If you are Housebound, you will receive a Flu, RSV & Covid vaccination via the Cardiff and Vale UHB, Mobile Vaccination Team, not the GP Practice.

The Practice does not hold information on when housebound patients will be vaccinated.

FLU VACCINATION

Who is eligible for a Flu vaccination via the GP Practice?

  • Children aged two and three years on 31 August 2024  
  • People aged 65 years and older (age on 31 March 2024)    
  • People aged under 64 years in clinical risk groups :    
  • Diabetes
  • A heart problem
  • COPD or asthma that requires regular steroid inhalers or tablets
  • Kidney disease (from stage 3)
  • Lowered immunity due to disease or treatment
  • Liver disease 
  • Had a stroke or mini-stroke
  • A neurological condition like Parkinson’s disease, or motor neurone disease
  • A missing spleen or a problem with it
  • Learning disability 
  • Severe mental illness
  • Morbidly obese. This is defined as those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 or above
  • Epilepsy
  • Pregnant women   
  • Unpaid Carers (please ensure you have been coded on our system as a Carer)
  • People who live with someone who has a weakened immune system    

More Information:

See Flu Vaccination - Public Health Wales (nhs.wales)

How to Book:

RSV VACCINATION

What is it?

RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) is a common winter virus, which almost all children have had by the time they are two years old. It is common for older children and adults to have the virus again.  

For most people, RSV causes a mild illness, such as a cough or cold. However, babies under one year of age and older adults are at risk of becoming very unwell. Sometimes, people who get ill from RSV infection need to go to hospital. RSV can be more dangerous for some people, especially those with certain health conditions. It may even cause death. 

Illness due to RSV has a big impact on the NHS during winter months. In the UK, around 33,500 children under the age of five end up in hospital because of the virus.

The number of people going to hospital because of RSV has increased in the last 20 years.

Who is eligible?

  • Those age 75 to 79 years 
  • Pregnant ladies (past 28 weeks pregnancy)

More information

How to Book:

  • Telephone the Practice

OTHER ADULT VACCINATIONS

PNEUMONIA VACCINATION

Who is eligible?

The pneumococcal vaccination is a one-off vaccination, not an annual vaccination, for:

  • adults aged 65 or over
  • adults <65 with long-term health conditions, such as a serious heart or kidney condition

More Information

How to Book:

SHINGLES VACCINATION

Who is eligible?

A vaccine to prevent shingles, a common, painful disease is available through the NHS in Wales to people aged:

  • 65 to 79
  • 50 years and over who are severely immunosuppressed (have a very weakened immune system because of a health condition or medical treatment).

Patients will have 2 doses of the vaccine in a lifetime (if you have received it after 1 September 2023).

If you received it before this date, it’s a one-off vaccination.

More Information:

How to Book:

COVID-19 VACCINATION – Autumn 2024 Booster Campaign

Who is eligible?

  • People aged 6 months to 64 years with a long-term health condition (which includes pregnant women and people with a weakened immune system) 
  • Residents in a care home for older adults 
  • People aged 65 years and older (age on 31 March 2025) 
  • Unpaid carers 
  • Frontline health and social care workers 
  • Staff working in care homes for older adults 

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination for eligible groups will start in October 2024.

More Information & How to Book: