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	2009/10 Flu Programme

	We are taking bookings now for the 2009/10 flu season. Please note that we are offering a evening and weekend clinics for patients who work, those who are reliant upon others for transportation and to avoid peak surgeries times. Please contact Reception on 01252 737387 to book your appointment.

Immunisations at Dr O'Donnell & Partners

Immunisations

Immunisation is by appointment with the practice nurse:

Children's immunisations: are recommended at 2,3 and 4 months of age: MMR at 12-14 months; pre-school booster at 4 years; tetanus and polio booster at 15 years.

Adult immunisation: we recommend tetanus and polio immunisation. For those at special risk we offer Hepatitis B, pneumonia and annual flu vaccination as well as immunisation against rubella.

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.

	Pneumococcal Vaccination

	Pneumococcus is a germ which can cause pneumonia, meningitis and some other infections. Pneumonia caused by pneumococcus occurs in about 1 in 1,000 adults each year. About 2 in 10 people who develop this type of pneumonia die from the infection. Pneumococcal infection can affect anybody. However, young children, older people, and some other groups of people are at increased risk of developing a pneumococcal infection. Children Immunisation against pneumococcus became part of the routine childhood immunisation programme in the summer of 2006. The routine schedule consists of three injections which are normally given at age at two months, four months and 13 months. Older Patients All people aged 65 or over should be immunised. This consists of a 'one-off' injection. At-risk groups Any person over the age of two months in an 'at-risk' group should be immunised. That is, if you: 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.

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