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HRT Prepayment Cards

The Department of Health and Social Care announced they are introducing the HRT Prepayment Card (PPC) to reduce the cost of HRT prescriptions. This service will be available from 1 April 2023.  To see if you are eligible and to purchase an HRT PPC - please use this link:

NHS Hormone Replacement Therapy Prescription Prepayment Certificate (HRT PPC) | NHSBSA

We are now booking flu vaccines

All groups eligible for free flu vaccination 2022

  • all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2022
  • all primary school aged children (from reception to Year 6) To be offered within schools
  • those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
  • pregnant women
  • those aged 65 years and over
  • those in long-stay residential care homes
  • carers
  • close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
  • frontline staff employed by the following types of social care providers without employer led occupational health schemes:
  • a registered residential care or nursing home
  • registered domiciliary care provider
  • a voluntary managed hospice provider
  • Direct Payment (personal budgets) or Personal Health Budgets, such as Personal Assistants

And later in the season:

  • All adults aged 50 to 64 years