Get protected before 30 June 2024
Anyone currently aged 75 and over, or who will be aged 75 by the 30 June 2024, is able to get the covid-19 vaccine, along with older adult care home residents and people with a weakened immune system aged six months and over.
For the first time, joint bookings can be made for those who use the online booking system or NHS 119 to get their jab. If anyone wants to get their vaccine at the same time as a loved one and they are both eligible and over 18, only one appointment will need to be made.
Depending on the vaccination site, those who have booked a joint appointment may be vaccinated at the same time or may have back-to-back vaccination slots.
Covid-19 can still cause severe illness and hospitalisations in some cases, particularly among those most at risk. The vaccine gives the best protection against the virus and its different variants and helps reduce the risk of serious illness.
Check if you are eligiable and book an appointment today.
NCH&C press office
Enquiries from the media are handled by the NCH&C press office. Our press office only deals with enquiries from the media. If you're not a media contact, there are other ways you can get in touch with NCH&C. Visit the Contact Us page to get in touch.
The NCH&C press office is open Monday to Friday, from 9am until 5pm. Please contact us in the following ways:
Tel: 01603 697366
Email: communications@nchc.nhs.uk
For urgent matters that occur outside of the usual opening hours, please contact the press office on 07747115764.
Please do not email us about urgent matters, as this inbox is not monitored outside of office hours.
Media FAQs
How do I request to take photographs or film footage of/at your premises or of your staff/services?
Please get in touch with the NCH&C communications team for permission to film or take photographs of our premises, staff and/or services before it takes place. If we can support the request, we will.
We’ve put together some guidelines which we ask the media to follow when taking photographs or filming at our trust:
- To help us with your request, please give us as much notice as possible.
- In order to protect our patients and staff, photography and filming is not allowed in some areas of the trust. Proper consent must be obtained before filming or photographing patients and/or staff.
- We don’t usually approve requests to film or photograph general shots of our premises and/or our staff or ‘pieces to camera’ that don’t directly relate to the work of NCH&C.
- We ask all media professionals on site to be accompanied by a member of our staff at all times.
- Please follow infection control procedures including using hand gel on entering and leaving clinical areas.
Anyone who is found filming or taking photographs at the hospital without permission will be asked to leave immediately, and footage and photographs may be confiscated.
How do I submit a Freedom of Information request or a Subject Access Request to NCH&C?
Please visit our dedicated section on accessing information we hold.