Peverell Park Surgery & University Medical Centre

Peverell Park Surgery | 01752 766644 | administration.peverellpark@nhs.net

University Medical Centre | 01752 222341 | administration.umcpeverell@nhs.net

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Book your Flu vaccination today

Posted on September 5th, 2021

Book your Flu vaccination today with our new automated telephone service

All over 50’s please book your flu vaccine, we will be sending text or letters to all eligible patients today. Please book using our new automated telephone service, there are lots of available dates and times.

The flu vaccine is a safe and effective vaccine. It’s offered every year on the NHS to help protect people at risk of getting seriously ill from flu.

For more NHS information about the Flu vaccine click here

 

 

Common questions about the flu vaccination

What is flu?

Flu is an unpleasant disease that spreads quickly and easily through coughing and sneezing. Flu can also give you headaches, a sore throat, fever, chills, and muscle and joint aches. Those people who are at risk, either because of their age or medical conditions, may develop complications such as chest infections and pneumonia.

Why get the vaccine?

The vaccine provides the best available protection against flu. It is not 100% but it will protect a significant number of people and reduce the severity of flu if you get it. It could also help your relatives or carers because you will not be passing the disease to them.

Who should get it?

Young babies, older people, pregnant women and those who have other underlying health conditions, especially those of the lungs, heart, liver or kidneys, are particularly vulnerable to serious complications and possibly hospitalisation. Every year in the UK a number of people in these groups die from the complications of flu.

I’ve heard that the vaccination can give you flu. Is that true?

No; the flu vaccine that is given to adults is made from dead flu virus and cannot cause the infection. The flu vaccine that will be given to most children is a live vaccine, but the viruses in it have been weakened so they can not cause flu. You may get some side effects after the vaccination but these are quite mild like a slightly raised temperature or aching muscles for a couple of days or an ache in the arm where the injection was given. Other reactions are very rare.

Peverell Park Surgery

  • Monday
    08:00am to 06:00pm
    Phones open at 08:00 / Doors open at 08:30
  • Tuesday
    08:00am to 06:00pm
    Phones open at 08:00 / Doors open at 08:30
  • Wednesday
    08:00am to 06:00pm
    Phones open at 08:00 / Doors open at 08:30
  • Thursday
    08:00am to 06:00pm
    Phones open at 08:00 / Doors open at 08:30
  • Friday
    08:00am to 06:00pm
    Phones open at 08:00 / Doors open at 08:30
  • Saturday
    CLOSED
  • Sunday
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