Vaccination and clinically vulnerable people

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) states that the Clinically Vulnerable (Cohort 6) includes ‘all individuals aged 16 years to 65 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality’.

This includes:

• Chronic respiratory disease
• Chronic heart disease and vascular disease
• Chronic kidney disease
• Chronic liver disease
• Chronic neurological disease, including severe or profound learning disability
• Diabetes mellitus
• Immunosuppression
• Asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen
• Morbid obesity
• Severe mental illness.

Cohort 6 also includes:

• Those who are eligible for a carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill.
• Residents in a long term residential facility, including those with learning disabilities.

You can book your Covid-19 vaccination appointment by visiting nhs.uk/covid-vaccination or call 119.

Yes, people classed as Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people have been asked to shield in the first and second waves of Covid-19 and include those with many risk factors such as cancer or renal failure requiring specialist care.

Due to age restrictions we must offer 16 and 17 year olds the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. This is in line with the instructions laid down by the Medicines Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

These citizens will be offered a separate booking slot at a hospital site that uses Pfizer only.

No, but we ask that everyone observes the guidance when booking their appointment.

All adults aged 18 and over are able to book their vaccine.

If you are concerned, contact 0115 883 4640. The bookings desk will take your name, and ensure you are logged and recorded within our system. In all cases the bookings team will ensure an appointment is made.

Yes if they are eligible, please use nhs.uk/covid-vaccination or call 119.

You do not need to do anything. All residents in a long term residential facility, including those with learning disabilities, will be visited by our ‘roving team’ of vaccinators. This is the same set up that we carried out for care home residents. The roving team will be in touch to book in your date for vaccinations.

We are working closely with the local councils during the pandemic. The County Council are supporting us with managing requests for information and assistance related to the vaccine rollout so if you have any questions that are not answered by the information here please contact enquiries@nottscc.gov.uk or call 0300 500 80 80.