FLU VACCINATION
Available from Tuesday 1st April 2025.
We operate a walk-in clinic Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, no booking is required. If you have questions please call us on 07 872 0564.
If you require a vaccination on a weekend, please phone ahead and check with the Pharmacist on duty if they are available.
The funded flu vaccine is called Influvac Tetra same as previous years, and we have Fluad Quad and Flucelvax Quad available unfunded. Please enquire for the best option for you.
Non-government funded flu vaccines are available for those who don't fit the below criteria for funding eligibility, if you would like to know costs involved please contact us.
2025 Funded Flu Vaccine Eligibility:
Government Funded influenza vaccine is available each year for people who meet the following criteria set by Pharmac:
1. All people 65 years of age and over; or
2. People under 65 years of age who:
• have any of the following cardiovascular diseases:
- ischaemic heart disease, or - congestive heart failure, or
- rheumatic heart disease, or
- congenital heart disease, or
- cerebrovascular disease; or
• have either of the following chronic respiratory diseases:
- asthma, if on a regular preventative therapy , or
- other chronic respiratory disease with impaired lung function, or
• have diabetes; or
• have chronic renal disease; or
• have any cancer, excluding basal and squamous skin cancers if not invasive; or
• have any of the following other conditions:
- autoimmune disease, or
- immune suppression or immune deficiency, or
- HIV, or
- transplant recipient, or
- neuromuscular and CNS diseases/disorder, or
- haemoglobinopathiese , or
- children on long-term aspirin, or
- a cochlear implant, or
- errors of metabolism at risk of major metabolic decompensation, or
- pre and post splenectomy, or
- Down syndrome, or
• are pregnant (any trimester); or
3. Children 4 years of age and under who have been hospitalised for respiratory illness or have a history of significant respiratory illness; or
4. People under 65 years of age who:
• have any of the following serious mental health conditions:
- schizophrenia, or
- major depressive disorder, or
- bipolar disorder, or
- schizoaffective disorder, or
• are currently accessing secondary or tertiary mental health and addiction services.
*Note: For eligible tamariki who require two doses of the vaccine, both doses are funded.
Unless meeting the criteria set out above, the following conditions are excluded from funding:
• asthma not requiring regular preventative therapy
• hypertension and/or dyslipidaemia without evidence of end-organ disease.
Explanatory notes:
a. People with asthma who are prescribed a preventer inhaler are entitled to a funded influenza vaccination, regardless of whether they are adherent with treatment.
b. Chronic respiratory diseases include chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, emphysema.
c. Autoimmune diseases may include coeliac disease, Crohn’s disease, Grave’s disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis. Immune suppression or immune deficiency includes disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDS) or targeted biologic therapies.
d. Neuromuscular and CNS diseases/disorders include cerebral palsy, congenital myopathy, epilepsy, hydrocephaly, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury. e. Haemoglobinopathies include sickle cell anaemia, thalassemia.
