The government has accepted the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice that the NHS should plan for a seasonal Covid-19 vaccination programme in spring 2025.

The authorised cohorts for the spring 2025 programme will cover:

• adults aged 75 years and over

• residents in a care home for older adults

• individuals aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppressed.

This programme will include those who will turn 75 years old by 17 June 2025. They will be eligible for a vaccination at any point in the campaign. Those who are new residents in an older adult care home or become immunosuppressed by 17 June 2025 are also eligible.

Vaccination for all eligible cohorts should begin from 1 April 2025. Priority should be given to older adult care homes and eligible housebound patients. The campaign end date will be 17 June 2025.

The NHS will invite those eligible for a spring dose via a combination of local and national invites. Sites must load appointments so that invitations can commence, and the public can book appointments from 25 March 2025 for vaccination from 1 April 2025.

The vaccines to be used in the spring 25 campaign have still to be confirmed, although NHSE says non-mRNA vaccines will not be supplied in England.