Autumn 2023 Vaccinations - flu and COVID-19 

We’re currently planning for our annual flu vaccinations clinics, which this year will be offered alongside Covid booster jabs to all eligible patients.

If you are in one of the groups eligible for one or both of the vaccines, you will receive an invite from us – if we have a mobile number for you, we will text you a link to allow you to book your appointment yourself, and if we don’t, you’ll receive a letter from us inviting you to call in to book.

We have now begun to send out the text invitations so please watch out for it on your mobile phone - we started sending texts on Thursday 14th September and the process will continue in the immediate following days.

YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT BY SIMPLY CLICKING ON THE LINK WITHIN THE TEXT THAT WE SEND TO YOUR MOBILE PHONE.

We ask that if you can book your appointment online via your text that you do so - we are trying to reduce the number of phone calls we are getting in regarding booking vaccine appointments. If you cannot book online then please call us on a Tuesday, Thursday or Friday between 3-4pm and select option 1 from the main menu and then option 4 - if you call outside of these times we will not be able to help you. We may also restrict our lines if we get a high number of phone calls.

Our vaccinations will take place at the Langford Medical Practice surgery. This is found at 9, Nightingale Place, Langford Village, Bicester OX26 6XX.

If you do not wish to receive your flu vaccine, but wish to have a covid vaccine, you can only receive this by booking your vaccine through the National Booking System and your covid jab will then take place at somewhere other than our surgery.

For those only eligible for a flu vaccine/ wishing only to receive a flu vaccine, we will be running ‘FLU ONLY’ clinics.

The eligible cohorts for Seasonal Flu vaccination and COVID-19 vaccination are similar, but they are NOT identical.

Seasonal Flu Vaccination Cohort Eligibility

• Those aged 65 years and over
• Those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
• Pregnant women
• All children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023
• School aged children (from Reception to Year 11)
• Those in long-stay residential care homes
• Carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person.
• Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• Frontline workers in a social care setting

COVID-19 Vaccination Cohort Eligibility

• Residents in a care home for older adults
• All adults aged 65 years and over
• Persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
• Frontline health and social care workers
• Persons aged 12-64y who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression.
• Persons aged 16-64y who are carers and staff working in care homes for older adults.

The following group will be invited through their school:

• School aged children (from Reception to Year Eleven)

It’s really helpful to us to be able to text the invites, and convenient for you to be able to book through the link, so if we don’t have your number please let us have it without delay.

If you are in the following groups we may not have a note of that on your medical record so please speak to us:

• Carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
• Close contacts of immunosuppressed individuals
• Frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme.

Most recent update of this page:   29th September 2023

Published: Aug 29, 2023