All patients who are aged 70 & 78 on 1st September 2019 are eligible to receive the Shingles vaccine.
Shingles can be given at the same time as a seasonal flu vaccine.

Any one aged between 71 –76 and 79 who had been eligible in the first six years of the programme also remain eligible.

Patients now 80 who had been eligible during 18/19 are NO LONGER eligible.