With only a few days until Christmas, the NHS in Lincolnshire would like to remind people that its Covid-19 vaccination service will be closed between 23rd December – 3rd January 2024.
Following the closure last week of the National Booking Service and 119, previously used to book vaccination appointments online and via telephone respectively, our ‘Grab a jab’ pages will continue to be kept up to date with all information relating to the vaccination programme locally, until the current Covid-19 vaccination campaign closes on 31st January 2024.
This includes the page listing scheduled Covid-19 vaccination clinics, which now includes a number of vaccination sessions due to be held until the end of January 2024 at the Weighing Rooms vaccination centre, Carholme Road, Lincoln.
The vaccination sessions at the Weighing Rooms will be open for people aged 18 and over to walk-in for a Covid-19 vaccination every Thursday and Friday between 11am and 1pm, from 21st December until 26th January (apart from Thursday 28th and Friday 29th December, when the vaccination service will be closed).
In addition, there will also be walk-in vaccination sessions at the Weighing Rooms for 5-17 year-olds to have a Covid-19 vaccination on Friday 22nd December, between 11am and 1pm, and then every Friday from 5th to 26th January between 3.30pm and 4.30pm.
Some community pharmacies will continue to offer Covid-19 vaccinations until the end of January – there is an updated list and map showing their locations. In addition, anyone eligible for a free flu vaccination can still contact their GP practice or visit a pharmacy offering the service, if aged 18 or over, until 31st March 2024.
People eligible for both winter vaccines – flu and Covid-19 – include all aged 65 and over, including those turning 65 years of age by 31st March 2024, those that are pregnant, those aged 6 months and above with certain health conditions, care home residents, frontline health and social care staff, unpaid carers and household contacts of people with a weakened immune system.