Winter vaccines 2024/25

Flu and COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to those eligible between September and December. It’s strongly recommended you get vaccinated if you’re offered this winter. If you’re eligible, you’ll receive a letter, SMS or email with appointment details or information about how to book one. You may receive information about your appointment at a different time than previous years.

Please do not try to book an appointment until you’ve been invited by NHS Scotland.

For more information, please visit www.nhsinform.scot/wintervaccines

Who will be offered the vaccines?

You’ll be offered flu and COVID-19 vaccines this winter if you’re:

• Living or working in a care home for older adults
• Aged 65 years and over
• Aged 6 months and over with an eligible health condition
• Pregnant
• A frontline health or social care worker

You’ll be offered the flu vaccine if you’re:

• Aged 6 months – 2 years with an eligible health condition
• 2-5 years
• Primary school aged
• Secondary school aged
• Aged 18 – 64 with an eligible health condition
• Living with someone who has a weakened immune system
• An unpaid or young carer
• A non-frontline health care worker
• A poultry worker
• An asylum seeker living in a home office hotel or B&B accommodation
• Experiencing homelessness or substance misuse
• Living in a Scottish Prison
• Living in long stay residential care home or other long stay facility

If you need to book or reschedule an appointment, you can do this by using the portal or by telephoning 0800 030 8013.

Step-by-step video guides are available to help with booking and rescheduling appointments, as well as updating your communications preference and retrieving your booking information.

For further information, please visit NHS Inform. Information is also available in other languages and formats

Please note that it is not possible to use the online booking portal for any children under the age of 11. To reschedule this age group, please contact the local NHS Grampian call centre on 01224 555 333.

Read more about the flu vaccine.

Read more about the child flu vaccine including who is eligible.

Rolling offer: If you’re aged 5 to 64 with no eligible condition/circumstance, you’ll no longer be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, unless you later enter an eligible group in future programmes, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Winter vaccine eligibility
Updated 18 August 2023

View our eligibility table (PDF)