This autumn term, Solent NHS Trust’s School Aged Immunisation (SAI) Service is offering flu vaccinations to all eligible primary school-aged children in Southampton, Portsmouth and on the Isle of Wight.
Solent’s SAI Service is running the first phase of sessions up until the Christmas break in schools and community clinics, offering a quick and convenient way for primary school-aged children to have their flu vaccination and keep up to date with their routine schedule of annual immunisations.
Flu is an unpredictable virus that can be particularly prevalent during the autumn and winter months. Children can carry the flu virus and spread it to those who may be at higher risk from the complications of flu such as the elderly, so vaccination is the best defence people have against it.
Angela Anderson, Deputy Chief Nurse at Solent NHS Trust, said:
“School age immunisations play a really important role in protecting the school aged children in our families and communities from contagious viruses and diseases including seasonal flu.”
“We are encouraging all parents and families of eligible children to take up this quick and convenient flu vaccination offer so that their children are protected this autumn and winter.
“Our teams want to make the immunisation experience as easy and accessible as possible which is why we are encouraging primary pupils across Portsmouth, Southampton and on the Isle of Wight to come forward and get vaccinated when invited. Our vaccinators are also on hand to answer any questions parents or carers may have so that they can make a fully informed choice for their children.”
Beyond this autumn term offer, the SAI service will continue its year-round schedule of vaccinations.
Big pharma will never go away, the flu jab is so unsuccessful its amazing, but yet they still promote it, they actually guess which strain will prevail each year from many different strains..yep guess! with them being so transparent over the sniffle shot I am amazed they are still trying it on with the scared.
There is truth in this, the pharmaceutical companies do have to take an ‘educated guess’ as to what strains might be around and then make the vaccines to counteract those particular strains. They don’t always get it right.
Plus, I think we’ve learnt from another virus which did the rounds over the past few years that being vaccinated doesn’t stop you passing the virus on to others. It can reduce the symptoms for you but doesn’t stop its transmission to others.
And, no, children aren’t particularly susceptible to flu viruses.
Personally, if I was a parent of school-age children, I’d be getting them vaccinated for the ‘big ones’ – MMR etc but not flu or covid vaccines. But, it’s down to everyone to make up their own minds.
children dont need this as a rule, do research parents