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Winter COVID-19 and flu vaccinations - still time to book online

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Male and female care colleagues vaccinated.

As the deadline for closure of the online booking service for COVID-19 and flu vaccinations looms on 14 December, highly respected GP and National Clinical Director, Dr Adrian Hayter, explains the merits of health and care colleagues keeping their vaccinations up to date as we get deeper into winter.

Getting vaccinated saves lives (and helps the health and care system too)

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"If I hadn’t had the vaccine, I would have died." It's great to have Think Local Act Personal's Clenton Farquharson back to explain why everyone, including vaccine hesitant care colleagues, should have their COVID-19 booster and flu jabs now.

Helping unpaid carers get vaccinated helps us all

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With the winter upon us, it’s more important than ever to protect ourselves and those we care for against COVID-19 and flu and get vaccinated. But how do we increase take-up among unpaid carers, a critical and highly valued group of people? Emily Holzhausen OBE, Carers UK, considers what more we can all do.

Vaccination: shared responsibility for Shared Lives carers

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As the campaign to encourage more frontline care and health workers to book their COVID-19 booster and flu vaccinations continues, we're delighted to share this message from Shared Lives carer, Mike Jacobs. The Shared Lives model, in which carers and those they care for share a home and community life, makes it even more important to maximise protection for everyone in their domestic circle.

Developing our care colleagues and keeping everyone safe

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Terri Spruce is Clinical Development Lead at specialist dementia care provider, Vida Healthcare. Her role gives her the opportunity to build rewarding relationships with staff, residents and families and help promote the take up of COVID-19 booster and flu vaccinations.

Get vaccinated: boost immunity and confidence

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We are delighted to host this blog from Self Care Forum board member and senior pharmacist, Ade Williams MBE. In particular, he addresses the issue of waning immunity, an aspect of vaccination easy to forget, but one we must keep in mind as we seek to maintain protection for ourselves and those around us.

Vaccination, recruitment and the best dementia care

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Plaster being put on a vaccinated shoulder

Dementia care specialists, Vida Healthcare, have been in the process of rolling out the latest batch of Covid-19 and flu vaccines to everyone living and working in their three care homes to protect them as they head into the winter months. This care for staff and residents is at the heart of their ethos.

Make sure you're prepared for autumn boosters

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Making sure vaccination consent is in place for staff and care home residents ahead of the autumn COVID-19 booster programme is essential. As Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care says in her latest blog: "The ever present threat of new, more infectious, variants demands there be no complacency."