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Spring COVID-19 boosters 2024

If you’re at increased risk of illness from COVID-19, getting a COVID-19 vaccine gives you good protection and helps to:

  • reduce your risk of getting seriously ill or dying from COVID-19
  • reduce your risk of needing to go to hospital if you catch COVID-19
  • reduce your risk of catching and spreading COVID-19
  • protect against different strains (variants) of COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccines are offered because viruses change, and protection fades over time.

Who can get a COVID-19 vaccination?

The seasonal Covid-19 vaccination programme will open again this spring, 2024.

Eligible cohorts in spring 2024:

  • adults aged 75 years and over
  • residents in care homes for older adults
  • individuals aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppressed

This includes those who turn 75 years old by 30 June 2024. These people will be eligible for a vaccination at any point in the campaign. People who are admitted to an older adult care home or become immunosuppressed by 30 June are also eligible.

The Spring Covid-19 booster vaccinations are due to start from early April, with older adult care homes and house bound patients followed by other eligible cohorts as set out by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

You will be invited for your booster, your GP may offer you the vaccine or you can book using the NHS app or the national booking system from mid-April.

The vaccination will be available through a mixture of walk-in and booked appointments at pharmacies and GP practices.

Contact us

If you have a question about the Sussex COVID-19 vaccination programme please take a look at the other pages in this section and the other resources listed on the right-hand side. If you can’t find the answer, please contact the Vaccine Enquiries Team:

Comments and complaints

If you have a comment or complaint about one of the vaccination services in Sussex, please contact the Vaccine Enquiries Team: