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Flu Immunisation

Last updated 12 September 2025

Flu vaccination campaign 2025/26

The 2025-26 flu vaccination campaign will be running in Powys from 1st October 2025 until 31st March 2026.

The campaign for pregnant women, 2–3-year-olds and school aged children starts in September 2025.

Last year in Wales, nearly a million people got their flu vaccine. That’s around one in every three people. 

Ideally, the flu vaccine should be given before flu starts to spread in the community. However, it can still be given at a later date.

It is very important to get your flu vaccine every year if you are eligible. It is one of the best ways to protect against flu. 
 

  • All eligible people in Powys will be contacted by their GP practice to offer the flu vaccine.
  • School aged children that attend school will receive the flu nasal spray from a school nurse. If your child does not attend school, please make an appointment at your GP surgery.
  • You can also receive the flu vaccination at your local community pharmacy.

 

Eligibility for the vaccine

If any of the following apply to you, even if you feel healthy, you are more likely to get complications from flu if you catch it, and you are advised to have a flu vaccine if: 

  • You are pregnant (available from 1st September) You are aged 65 or over
  • You are aged six months to 64 years and have a long-term health condition that puts you at increased risk from flu, including but not limited to:
    • Diabetes
    • A heart problem
    • A chest complaint or breathing difficulties, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma that requires regular steroid inhalers or tablets
    • Kidney disease (from stage 3)
    • A weak immune system due to disease or treatment (and also close contacts of people in this group) 
    • Liver disease 
    • Had a stroke or mini stroke
    • A neurological condition like Parkinson’s disease, or motor neurone disease
    • A missing spleen or a problem with it
    • Learning disability 
    • Severe mental illness
    • Morbidly obese (class III obesity). This is defined as those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 or above, aged 16 or over.
    • Epilepsy
  • You live in a care home
  • You are homeless
  • You are a poultry worker at high risk (available at pharmacies only)

Eligibility for the vaccineThe following groups are also advised to have a flu vaccine to protect them and the people around them:

  • Children aged two and three years old (age on 31 August 2024) (available from 1st September)
  • Children and young people in school from Reception class to Year 11 (available from 1st September)
  • Carers
  • People working directly with patients/clients in health or social care
  • First responders and members of voluntary organisations providing planned emergency first aid
  • Those who live with someone who has a weak immune system 

 

If you wish to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please call the GP practice or local pharmacy where you are due to have your flu vaccine.

For more information.

 

 

 

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