If you're aged 16 or over and had your 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least three months ago, you can:

• book your COVID-19 vaccination appointment online for an appointment at a vaccination centre or pharmacy – you can pre-book your booster dose if it's been two months (61 days) since you had your 2nd dose
• find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site to get vaccinated without needing an appointment

If you cannot book an appointment online, you can call 119 free of charge. You can speak to a translator if you need to.

If you have difficulties communicating or hearing, or are a British Sign Language (BSL) user, you can use textphone 18001 119 or the NHS 119 BSL interpreter service.

Some children aged 12 to 15 can get a booster dose if they had a 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least three months ago and they either:

• have a condition that means they're at high risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19
• live with someone who has a weakened immune system

Eligible children can:

• book a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online for an appointment at a vaccination centre or pharmacy – you can pre-book a booster dose if it's been two months (61 days) since your 2nd dose
• find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site to get vaccinated without needing an appointment

If you get vaccinated at a walk-in site, you'll need to bring the letter, text or email inviting you to get a booster dose.

If you do not have an invitation, you can bring a letter from your GP or hospital specialist about your condition, or a letter from the GP or hospital specialist of the person you live with confirming that anyone they live with should get a booster.

If you have or had a severely weakened immune system when you had your first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, you may have been offered a 3rd dose of the vaccine.

You can get a booster dose (4th dose) from three months after you had your 3rd dose.

A GP or your hospital specialist will invite you for your booster dose when it's due.

You can book your COVID-19 vaccination appointment online for an appointment at a vaccination centre or pharmacy or find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site to get vaccinated without needing an appointment.

Find out more about COVID-19 vaccination for people with a severely weakened immune system

You will be offered a spring booster if you:

• are aged 75 and over
• live in a care home for older people
• are aged 12 and over and have a weakened immune system

COVID-19 may affect you more seriously if you are in one of these groups. The spring booster is being offered to help reduce your risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19.

You will be contacted by the NHS when you are due a spring booster. You will usually be offered an appointment around six months after your last dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

If you are eligible for a spring booster, but have not had a 1st or 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine yet, you should have them as soon as possible.

If you have a severely weakened immune system you need to get a 3rd dose before you get a booster.

Find out more about the COVID-19 vaccine for people with a severely weakened immune system.

Book a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online for your spring booster if you are:

• aged 75 and over
• aged 12 and over and have a weakened immune system

If you live in a care home for older people, contact your care home manager about getting vaccinated.

Find out more about COVID-19 vaccination spring boosters for those aged 75 years and older residents in care homes on GOV.UK.

COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions.

This winter it is expected that many respiratory infections, including COVID-19 and flu may be circulating at high levels – this may put increasing pressure on hospitals and other health care services. For these reasons, people aged 50 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged five years and over in clinical risk groups are being offered an Autumn booster of COVID-19 vaccine.

A booster will also be offered to front-line health and social care staff, those who care for vulnerable individuals and families of individuals with weakened immune systems.

The Autumn booster is being offered to those at high risk of the complications of COVID-19 infection, who may have not been boosted for a few months. As the number of COVID-19 infections increases over the winter, this booster should help to reduce your risk of being admitted to hospital with COVID-19.

The booster may also provide some protection against mild Omicron infection but such protection does not last for long.

You should be offered an appointment between September and December, with those at highest risk being called in first. You should have your booster at least three months after your last dose of vaccine.

If you are eligible for a flu vaccine, you may be able to have them at the same time – if not please go ahead anyway, you can catch up with the other vaccine later.

Children aged 5-11 who are in a clinical risk group or who live with someone who is in immunosuppressed can now get the first dose of the COVID vaccine in line with advice set out by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Eligible children include those with diabetes, immunosuppression, learning disabilities, and other conditions as outlined by the UK Health Security Agency in the Green Book.

Parents and guardians should wait for the NHS to contact them for when it is their child’s turn to get the life-saving vaccine with local NHS teams already contacting those who are eligible.

GP led teams have been identifying eligible children ahead of vaccinations starting to help get jabs into arms as quickly as possible.

All eligible 5-11 year olds will be offered two 10 microgram doses of the Pfizer vaccine eight weeks apart – a third of the amount used for adult vaccinations.

This letter from NHS England and NHS Improvement and Public Health England explains how people without an NHS number, including migrants, can get the COVID-19 vaccine and if they wish to, how to register at a GP practice.

Patients can come forward at any time to be vaccinated, as this is an 'evergreen' offer. Vaccinations can be booked online on the NHS website, by calling 119. Patients may also choose to access a walk-in vaccination site.