Flu vaccine and Covid booster

[SandyStarfish]

I usually buy the £9 flu vaccine from a pharmacy every year. I had heard that the flu vaccine might be combined with Covid booster (not sure where I heard this). However it seems as though you can already book a flu vax at some pharmacies. Any pharmacists here able to answer any of these?

1. Is September too early for flu vax, for the best cover?
2. Is flu vax likely to run out (for general public to buy) as more people might want it this year (and therefore is having it earlier, better)?
3. Are there any plans to combine a Covid booster and the flu jab? I wouldn't want to have the flu vax and then an update to it is brought out which combines the two, but I've already had the single flu jab.
4. For CV people who are offered a free NHS jab yearly, but decide to have it at a pharmacy... are they better of waiting to hear what the doctors advise rather than booking one in for September?

Thanks for any input.

Flu season thus year will be a little unpredictable - because it's much harder to work out which strains are in the ascendancy when there has been so little in circulation.

The last thing anyone wants is a bad flu year on top of significant numbers of covid admissions.

I think they would be unwise not to offer boosters to group 1

Though I suppose you could prune group 2 to CV, household CEV/immune-suppressed and a different more restrictive age cut-off