Eligible conditions for funded influenza vaccine
List of medical conditions eligible for free influenza immunization (Adults & children)
If you are unsure whether you fit these criteria, please call us.
Cardiovascular disease/cerebrovascular disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Congestive heart failure
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Coronary artery disease
- Angina
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Or other heart condition and cerebrovascular disease
Chronic respiratory disease
- Asthma if on a regular preventative treatment
- Emphysema
- Chronic obstructive airways disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Chronic bronchitis
- Other chronic repiratory disease with impaired lung function
Diabetes
- Type I and Type II diabetes
Cancer
- Cancer (current) excluding basal and squamous skin cancers if not invasive
Other conditions
- Autoimmune disease
- Cerebral palsy
- Children on long-term aspirin
- Chronic renal disease
- Congenital myopathy
- Epilepsy
- Haemaglobinopathies
- uman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Hydrocephaly
- Immune suppression
- Motor Neuron disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neuromuscular and central nervous system diseases
- Parkinson's disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sickle cell anaemia
- Transplant recipients
- Pregnancy
- Obese (BMI >35)
On top of this, everyone over the age of 65 years of age are also eligible for a free vaccination.