Crouch Vale Medical Centre operates as a ‘designated site’ to deliver Covid vaccines for patients living in South Woodham Ferrers and Dengie. (The two areas making up our local ‘Primary Care Network’)

Criteria for each NHS campaign changes.

The Spring 2025 campaign begins 1st April 2025.  

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If you have difficulty using the telephone, e.g. hard of hearing, please make contact using email central.referral@nhs.net

Greenwood & Wyncroft Surgery will be holding a clinic on Saturday 26th April 2025 for Covid Vaccine (Spikevax aka. Moderna)

Eligible patients  will be invited and these include:

>>75 year old and over 

> Care home residents

>> Immunosuppressed patients due to cancer treatment/transplant, HIV,  genetic disorders affecting the immune system, biological therapy including anti-TNF, cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate

     >>Individuals treated with or likely to be treated with systemic steroids for more than a month at a dose equivalent to prednisolone at 20mg or more per day for adults

    >>Anyone with a history of blood cancer, including leukaemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.

>>Those who require long term immunosuppressive treatment for conditions including, but not limited to, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, scleroderma and psoriasis.

Justification for NOT providing for others in this campaign includes:

Compared with the previous autumn campaigns, in the Spring 2025 campaign, those under the age of 75 with a clinical risk factor will no longer be eligible. Upon review of the data from the previous vaccination campaigns, it was found that a large proportion of those with risk factors were already eligible via the age based criteria, and that both uptake of the vaccine, and rate of severe outcomes from COVID-19 were much lower in younger individuals at risk than in older age groups. Therefore the benefit of continuing to vaccinate younger people with clinical risk factors other than immunosuppression is limited.

As with the Autumn 2024 campaign, household contacts of the immunosuppressed, and frontline health and social care workers are not included in the eligible cohort. This is because the protection against mild and asymptomatic illness appears to be limited and short in duration, particularly with the highly transmissible Omicron variants. Therefore the indirect benefits of vaccinating households are less evident than in previous years.

Patient feedback:

We just wanted to send a quick email to thank you, NHS staff and volunteers for the wonderful work you are doing regarding the Covid vaccination rollout. When we came this morning everyone was professional, friendly and courteous in what we are sure must be very difficult circumstances.

Please convey our thanks to everyone involved. You are all stars as far as we are concerned and we are truly grateful.

Regards

Mr and Mrs LB and TB

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See FAQ for updated information on the above:

https://eput.nhs.uk/news-events/coronavirus/coronavirus-vaccine/

See below for reminder of prioritisation groups for vaccine:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-care-home-and-healthcare-settings-posters/covid-19-vaccination-first-phase-priority-groups

Please see the following links for useful information BEFORE attending for vaccination

Mid-Essex CCG Covid Vaccine Patient Leaflets

Video answering frequently asked questions by Lead at UK Vaccine Taskforce

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