Dr O'Donnell & Partners are the appointed BCG centre for the Farnham area.  We are able to provide NHS vaccinations for qualifying patients and can offer private BCGs to travellers or parents who would like the reassurance of vaccination for their children.

Our annual flu vaccination programme runs from early October through to the end of the following March.  The vaccination criteria is set by the Department of Health but generally all patients aged 65 or over and who are on our major chronic disease registers (asthma patients on regular steroid, COPD, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke/ischaemic attack or suffer with renal failure or immuno-suppresion problems) are entitled to free NHS immunisation.

• Do not have a spleen, or if your spleen does not work properly.
• Have a chronic (ongoing) serious lung disease. For example: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma which requires regular use of steroid tablets, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung fibrosis, pneumoconiosis, etc.
• Are a child who has previously been admitted to hospital with pneumonia.
• Have a chronic heart disease. For example: if you require regular medication or follow-up for ischaemic heart disease (angina, heart attacks, etc), congenital heart disease, chronic heart failure, hypertensive heart disease (not uncomplicated high blood pressure that is controlled with medication).
• Have a serious chronic kidney disease. For example: nephrotic syndrome, kidney failure, if you have had a kidney transplant.
• Have a chronic liver disease such as cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis.
• Have diabetes which requires insulin or tablets to control it.
• Have a poor immune system (immunosuppression). For example, if you have no spleen, are taking chemotherapy or steroid treatment, if you have HIV/AIDS, etc.
• Have a cochlear implant.
• Have a CSF shunt (a shunt to drain the fluid that surrounds the brain).
• Are a child under five years who has previously had a pneumococcal disease such as pneumococcal meningitis or pneumococcal bacteraemia.