Winter 'Flu' Vaccination

Receive your annual flu jab in the pharmacy

This year it is even more important for everyone to get their flu jab.

Flu is an infectious virus spread by coughing and sneezing. Flu like illnesses cause high temperatures, muscles aches and pains, tiredness and sore throat. Complications can lead to more serious problems such as pneumonia especially in at risk patients such as the elderly or patients who suffer from chronic respiratory disorders. 

The annual influenza vaccination can help protect you from catching flu and we recommend getting this done before Winter arrives.

For at risk groups, the NHS offer an annual flu jab and we can now offer this free service in the pharmacy without the need to go to your doctors. 

The service includes:

• Patients over 65 years
• Patients over 18 years of age with risk factors such as chronic heart disease, respiratory disease, kidney or liver problems as well as those with diabetes or diet controlled diabetes
• Carers
• Immuno-compromised patients
• Pregnant women
• Household members living with immuno-compromised individuals          
• Shielding patients                   

Please ask in the pharmacy for more details as some exemptions do apply.

For those patients outside the above criteria, we also offer a private flu vaccination service.

Vaccinations take place in our private consultation room.

NHS Flu Fighter Carers Award 2015

We are proud to announce that Newland Community Pharmacy have won the NHS Flu Fighter Carers Award for 2015 against stiff competition from throughout England and Wales. 

The panel of judges, including the editor of Nursing Times magazine Jenni Middleton, said that the team’s remarkable efforts will be promoted across the country to inspire similar work.

The awards are part of the NHS flu fighter campaign run by NHS Employers, which has helped increase the number of frontline NHS staff having flu vaccinations by 182,000 since it began in 2011.

Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, presented the award and said:

 “This team has done fantastic work to help make the NHS an even safer place for staff, patients, and anyone they come into contact with. More than a million people use the NHS every 36 hours and many can be very vulnerable to flu. So it’s great that the majority of NHS staff find time in their busy days to seek out these voluntary vaccinations.”