RSV Vaccination Posted or Updated on 6 Sep 2024

How to protect yourself by having the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine.

Please read the guide to the RSV vaccine for older adults via the link below:

RSV vaccine for adults (publishing.service.gov.uk)

You are eligable for the free RSV vaccine if you:
• turn 75 years of age on or after 1 September 2024
• are already aged 75 to 79 years old on 1 September 2024

What is RSV?

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including cough, sore throat, sneezing and runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions.