Covid-19 Vaccinations
Autumn Covid and Flu Vaccinations (Information updated 20/08/2025)
West Northumberland covid vaccination clinics will start from the 1st October (please see dates and locations below). The clinics will again be delivered by Hadrian Primary Care Alliance, which is a collaboration of local practices (including Burn Brae Medical Group) working together to deliver vaccinations in the area. All clinic appointments are bookable via the National Booking System which opens for patient bookings from 1st September 2025 . The appointments can be booked online through the National Booking System or calling 119.
This season, patients who are eligible for their flu vaccine alongside their covid vaccine can have this at the same time in all of the clinics below. If you wish to have both vaccines in clinic, please select the 'flu and COVID' appointment option when booking online or request this when calling 119. If you don't want to have your flu vaccine at the same time as your covid, select or request the covid only appointment option when booking into a covid clinic and contact the practice to arrange a separate appointment for your flu vaccine
Eligibility
Covid booster vaccinations for the most vulnerable and at greatest risk from COVID-19 will be available for the following groups: :
• aged 75 years & over by the end of January 2026 (people born before 31st January 1951)
• aged 6 months and over and are immunosuppressed (please click "Read More" below for further information).
Flu vaccination will be available to the usual at-risk groups of all ages as well as everyone aged 65+
This year we will only be running a single mass vaccination clinic on Saturday 4th October alongside the Covid vaccination clinic that will be taking place in the Sele Practice waiting room. We will also be offering Flu vaccination at smaller clinics during the week as usual.
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Clinic Location |
Dates and times of clinics (all bookable via the National Booking System from 1st September Book, change or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment - NHS or calling 119) |
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Hexham (Sele Medical Practice), Hexham Primary Care Centre, Corbridge Road, NE46 1QJ
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Saturday 4th October: 9am – 5pm Saturday 11th October: 9am – 5pm Saturday 18th October: 9am – 5pm Saturday 25th October: 9am – 5pm Saturday 1st November: TBC
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Prudhoe Waterworld, Front Street, Prudhoe, NE42 5DQ |
Wednesday 1st October: 9am – 5pm Wednesday 8th October: 9am – 5pm Wednesday 15th October: 9am – 12.30pm Wednesday 22nd October: TBC
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Bellingham Fire Station, Bellingham, NE48 2JS |
Friday 3rd October: 9am – 5pm Friday 17th October: AM TBC |
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Haltwhistle Fire Station, Haltwhistle, NE49 9BW |
Monday 6th October: 9am – 5pm Tuesday 14th October: 9am – 5pm
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Ponteland Memorial Hall, Darras Road, NE20 9NX
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Tuesday 7th October: 12 – 5pm |
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Cambo Village Hall, Cambo, NE61 4BA |
Friday 10th October: 10am – 2.45pm |
Order Your Repeat Prescriptions on the NHS App
If you have the NHS App on your phone (or if you use Patient Access on your computer/tablet, then you can order your repeat prescriptions online without phoning the Practice. Why not give it a go?
Shingles Vaccination
There have been changes to the shingles vaccination programme. Unfortunately the communications around those changes is contradictory and confusing. A clarification page has now been posted on the Gov.UK website. Until they are rectified, the nationally produced leaflets and advertising say that all patients aged 65 are eligible for shingles vaccination but this is not accurate.
The situation is that patients who turn 65 on or after 1st September 2023 are eligible and we will be contacting patients to make an appointment after their birthday. If you turned 65 prior to 1st September 2023 then you will become eligible for vaccination from the age of 70. Over the next 5 years the programme will gradually bring in everyone aged 65-69 and also everyone already eligible aged 70-79.
Therefore please do not make an appointment for a vaccination unless we have contacted you as you may not be eligible, even if you are 65. We appreciate this may be frustrating but the vaccine is only available in limited quantities and we are not able to vaccinate outside of the national programme which works on date of birth and not current age in years.
To clarify, if your date of birth is 1st September 1958 to 31 August 1959 then you will become eligble for shingles vaccination when you turn 65. In addition anyone aged 70-79 is also eligible, this part of the programme is unchanged.
Updated 25/9/23
GP Data for Planning and Research
The data held in the GP medical records of patients is used every day to support health and care planning and research in England, helping to find better treatments and improve patient outcomes for everyone. NHS Digital has developed a new way to collect this data, called the General Practice Data for Planning and Research data collection. For more information please see the NHS Digital website.
If you wish to opt out of this data collection please complete the form on the NHS Digital Website which is found under the section headed "Stop your GP surgery from sharing your data". Please return the form to the surgery.
Note that data held elsewhere in the NHS will still be shared unless you also use the option listed on the NHS Digital Website headed "Stop NHS Digital and other health and care organisations from sharing your data for research and planning".
