I have two friends, who will both turn 70 in January, another couple who will turn 50 in Feb, and a friend's Mum who will be 80 on NYE. We were wondering how it will be decided when people fall into various categories for getting the vaccine, as these are all cut-offs for different priority groups. For flu vaccines, I think they use the end of March, which means all these people would fall into the 'higher' category right form the start, I think, if it's the same? Anyone know?
Might only be a matter of weeks or a month or two for the older ones, but those weeks or months might matter a lot to those people. And for the now-49 year olds, it could make a difference between getting it in the first phase, or not til much later in the year/if at all.
The now-49s haven't (yet) been invited for vaccines for flu in this new program starting in December, which if the end of March guidelines is right, they should be, (although one of them has already had it privately), and it's quite early on to know whether they will be getting letter as the program just started, so that can't really be used as a good indication. How do surgeries generally organise these things?