Wrap Yourself Up For Winter – Get Vaccinated 16th January

16th January 2024

The South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust has launched its Winter Vaccination Programme for COVID-19 & Flu vaccinations “Wrap Yourself Up For Winter – Get Vaccinated.”

The vaccination programme to date has been a huge success, saving many lives and allowing us to live with COVID-19, it has also eased pressures on the Health Service.

There are a number of vaccination sites across the Trust area:

  1. Vaccination Centre, Ulster Hospital, Upper Newtownards Road, Dundonald (enter via the front hospital entrance and follow signs)
  2. Lisburn Primary and Community Care Centre, (LPCCC), Lagan Valley Hospital, 39 Hillsborough Road, Lisburn
  3. Downe Hospital, The Atrium, 2 Struell Wells Rd ,Downpatrick

The Trust’s District Nursing Team will administer vaccines to patients who are housebound due to their medical condition.

Please note we offer Flu vaccinations to those who are 18 years old and over.   

Those eligible to receive their vaccines at a Trust Vaccination Centre include the following groups:

  1. Those who are 65 years and over  (both Covid-19 and Flu vaccinations)
  2. Those who are 18 years old and over who are  immunosuppressed, clinically vulnerable, household contacts of those immunosuppressed  (both Covid-19 and Flu vaccinations)
  3. Carers 18 years and over  (both Covid-19 and Flu vaccinations) and Carers 16-17yrs (Covid-19 only)
  4. Frontline Health and Social Care Workers  (both Covid-19 and Flu vaccinations)
  5. Pregnant women (both Covid-19 and Flu vaccinations)
  6. Those aged 5 – 17 years and identified in clinical at risk groups (Covid-19 vaccination only)
  7. Those aged 6 months to 4 years in clinical at risk groups identified by their Paediatrician (Covid-19 vaccination only)
  8. Those aged 12-17 years identified as household contacts who are part of an immuno-suppressed household (Covid-19 vaccination only)

Online booking is available at the following link – https://vaccinations.covid-19.hscni.net/booking

Walk-in appointments are also available at all trust vaccination Sites.

Ulster Hospital, Upper Newtownards Road, Dundonald

  • Wednesday 17 January 2024, 8.30 am – 4.30 pm (12+ years)
  • Friday 19 January 2024, 8.30 am – 4.30 pm (5+ years)

Lisburn Primary and Community Care Centre, Lagan Valley Hospital, 39 Hillsborough Road, Lisburn

  • Friday 19 January 2024, 8.30 am – 4.30 pm (5+ years)

Downe Hospital, The Atrium, 2 Struell Wells Rd ,Downpatrick

  • Saturday 20 January 2024,  10.00 am – 2.00 pm (5+ years)

Ards Shopping Centre

  • Saturday 20 January 2024, 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Covid (12 yrs.+) and Flu (18 yrs.+ only) for those eligible.

Paediatric Clinics for children aged 5-11 years will be available on Fridays only in the Ulster Hospital and Lisburn Primary & Community Care Centre and on Saturdays in the Downe Hospital, The Atrium , Downpatrick.

Those attending the vaccination clinics MUST provide Photo ID

Those attending who are aged between 5-15 MUST be accompanied by an adult.