Vaccines

Get Winter Ready - book your vaccinations

Book winter vaccinations now, urge health chiefs

Residents are urged to get their flu jab this winter

Health chiefs urge people to vaccinated this winter

Those eligible for the flu vaccine are being urged to take up the offer as soon as they can.

The full list of everyone eligible for the free flu vaccine

Measles is a highly contagious viral infection.

How to get the MMR vaccine - as one in five children unprotected

Whooping cough can have serious and deadly consequences for young babies.

How to get the whooping cough vaccine in pregnancy

Over 300,000 more people will now be eligible for the shingles vaccine.

You could be eligible for the shingles vaccine - check new criteria

From January next year children will be eligible for the chickenpox vaccine.

This is when your child will be able to get the chickenpox vaccine

The Chikungunya virus is spread by mosquitoes.

How to avoid catching the Chikungunya virus on holiday

The MenB vaccine (called Bexsero), also referred to as 4CMenB, is already used to protect against a type of bacteria that can cause meningitis.

Borough among first to vaccinate against gonorrhoea

With cases on the rise, this is how to tell the difference between hay fever and Covid symptoms.

How to tell the difference between hay fever and Covid as cases rise

Covid cases have been on the rise in the UK.

Covid symptoms to look out for after Easter as cases rise

Symptoms of the cold, flu and Covid can be similar.

New Covid variant on the rise - the symptoms you shouldn't ignore

The spring Covid booster vaccination programme is currently underway.

Warning over slump in elderly getting spring Covid boosters

Dr Helen Wall, Bolton GP and clinical director of population health at NHS Greater Manchester, next to a bus featuring the winter vaccination campaign at a depot in Ashton

NHS campaign for winter jabs launches in Wigan

Cases of Covid are on the rise thanks to the new XEC Covid variant.

'Covid: symptoms and new variants explained as hospitalisations rise

Symptoms of the cold, flu and Covid can be similar.

Is it cold, flu or Covid? Latest symptoms to watch out for
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The NHS are asking people to protect themselves from a 'tripledemic' of RSV, Covid and flu this winter.

What is the 'tripledemic'? Cold, flu and RSV risks explained

The NHS will be starting the Covid autumn vaccine programme this autumn.

Who is eligible for the Covid vaccine as cases of XEC variant rise

The flu vaccination campaign launched on September 1, with appointments running across autumn and winter to provide vital protection to prevent people from developing serious illnesses and ending up in hospital during the busy winter months

Winter flu jab call to parents

You should get advice from 111 as soon as possible if you think you have shingles

Shingles vaccine: who is eligible and is shingles contagious?

The RSV vaccination programme has launched across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Photo: Gustavo Fring/Pexels)

What is the RSV vaccine and who is eligible?

Monkeypox pathogen. Credit: UKHS

Mpox UK: who is eligible for the monkeypox vaccine?

The WHO has declared a global health emergency over a mpox outbreak. (Photo: Pixabay, CDC/Getty Images)

Mpox: signs and symptoms as WHO declares global health emergency

FLuQE is a new Covid variant that has been driving new cases. (Photo: Pexels, CDC)

KP3 Covid symptoms as cases of new variant FLuQE rise

Health column: Protect you and your family this summer by checking your vaccinat...

A new Covid variant has caused an increase in hospital admissions across the UK. (Photo: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Summer Covid symptoms as cases of new variant FLiRT increase

What we know about the new COVID FLiRT variants including symptoms
The new variants have caused a sharp rise in COVID infections across the UK.
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Immunisation rates have fallen in Wigan

Fewer people are getting jabs against flu, Covid and MMR

Two scientists credited with making major breakthroughs in the development of mRNA vaccine to fight Covid-19 have won the 2023 Nobel Prize for medicine. (Credit: Getty Images)

Breaking Covid-19 vaccine scientists win Nobel prize for medicine

The Vaccines announce ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ album and 2024 UK tour - how to buy tickets

The Vaccines announce new album and UK tour - how to buy tickets

A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid and flu jabs to be brought forward over emergence of new variant

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Andrew Bridgen MP

Breaking MP expelled from Conservative Party

NHS nurses are among the groups struggling to afford to eat (image: Getty Images)

Breaking Covid vaccine now offered to young clinically vulnerable children

Covid-19 booster injections will be offered to some this spring

Everything you need to know about spring 2023 Covid-19 booster jabs

Covid-19 booster jabs will be ooffered to ‘vulnberable’ people this spring

Covid-19 booster jabs to be offered to most vulnerable this spring

Huge vaccinations drive ahead as winter ‘twindemic’ looms

All over-18s in England have been eligible to book a Covid vaccination since mid-June 2021 in what marked a milestone for the vaccine rollout.

One in eight Wigan adults still unvaccinated against Covid-19

Vaccines are the best defence against severe disease and death, says the WHO (Photo: Getty Images)

Worst of Omicron wave ‘done with’ says WHO - but pandemic far from over

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

One of the signs - bearing a fake claim about the Covid jab - held aloft outside Lytham St Annes High School earlier this week

Covid vaccines for teenagers: what parents need to know amid a new wave of misin...

Covid booster vaccines may not be necessary for everyone in the UK, the head of AstraZeneca has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster vaccines may not be needed for everyone in the UK, says AstraZenec...

Fears growing over staff crisis in Wigan care homes

Wigan care homes on the verge of staff crisis

Festival-goers will be able to get a vaccine as easily as a burger or a beer (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs on line-up as ‘vaccine tent’ opens at Reading and Leeds festivals

The vaccine doses will be delivered in the second half of next year (Photo: Getty Images)

UK secures 35m more Pfizer vaccine doses to ‘future-proof’ country from

People who have been fully vaccinated can still transmit the Delta variant (Photo: Getty Images)

Vaccinated people can still pass on Delta variant - but protection remains high

More people are being treated for eating disorders. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pfizer vaccine effectiveness declines more quickly than AstraZeneca, finds study

Respiratory consultant Dr Abdul Ashish

Wigan doctors urge everyone to get coronavirus jab

A member of the public receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the Turbine Hall at a temporary Covid-19 vaccine centre at the Tate Modern in central London (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccines could be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds as JCVI guidance set to be upda...

Grab a Jab

It's 'Grab a Jab' weekend: Here are the walk-in sites across the North West this...

More than 45 million adults in the UK have now been vaccinated with a first dose

More than 45m adults have now had their first Covid vaccine

More than 4.2 million people aged between 18 and 29 have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in England (Photo: Getty Images)

Half of under 30s in England vaccinated against Covid after ‘grab a jab’ weekend

A new intiative has been launched across the north west encouraging people to walk-in to clinics get their Covid vaccination

'Weekend of Walk-ins' initiative aims to boost Covid-19 vaccine uptake across no...

Ministers are reportedly preparing to announce that care home workers in England will be required to have mandatory Covid vaccines (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid vaccines set to be made a requirement for care home staff in England

More than 2000 confirmed cases of ‘Indian variant’ in the UK, Matt Hancock tells MPs (Photo: PA, House of Commons)

More than 2000 confirmed cases of ‘Indian variant’ in the UK, Matt Hancock tells...

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