Get a COVID-19 vaccination in Northern Ireland

The Spring COVID-19 booster 2024 is now available for eligible people in Northern Ireland.

Spring booster programme

Vaccination continues to help protect against severe illness, hospitalisations and deaths from COVID-19.

Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the following groups will be offered COVID-19 vaccine this spring:

adults aged 75 years and over
residents in a care home for older adults
individuals aged six months and over who are immunosuppressed (as defined in tables three and four in the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book)

If you are eligible for vaccination against COVID-19, you should make yourself aware of your own GP surgery’s or community pharmacist’s vaccination arrangements and work with them to get vaccinated.

HSC Trusts are also offering COVID-19 vaccines to eligible people.

Where to get your COVID-19 vaccine

If you are aged 75 years and over, you can get the COVID-19 vaccine from:

your GP surgery
a participating community pharmacy
your HSC Trust

If you are aged 18 and over and are immunosuppressed, you can get the COVID-19 vaccine from:

your GP surgery
a participating community pharmacy
your HSC Trust

If you are aged between six months and 17 years old and are immunosuppressed (as defined in tables three and four in the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book) you can get the COVID-19 vaccine from your HSC Trust.

If you are a care home resident, you will be vaccinated by a community pharmacy within the care home.

If you are housebound and fall within an eligible group, a HSC Trust team will be in touch to arrange your vaccination.

To find out which community pharmacies near you are offering vaccinations, put in your postcode at the link below:

Find a vaccination clinic

If you fall within an eligible group and wish to be vaccinated at a Trust clinic, use the link below to book an appointment:

COVID-19 vaccine service for NI

First doses of COVID-19 vaccine

If you have never received a COVID-19 vaccine, you can receive a vaccine during the spring booster programme, if you fall into one of the eligible groups listed above.

Further information about the vaccine

The Public Health Agency has developed a range of leaflets and a frequently asked questions section:

COVID-19 vaccination programme

The leaflet to support parents of children at serious risk from the complications of coronavirus infection is available at:

COVID-19: A guide for parents of children six months to four years of age at high risk

Types of vaccine

There are many different types of coronavirus vaccines.

Spikevax XBB 1.5 (Moderna) vaccine is available to use in the adult programme and Trusts will continue to vaccinate younger people with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA (Comirnaty) Omicron XBB.1.5 vaccine.

Vaccine safety

The vaccines have met strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness set out by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

More information is available at:

Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccine safety

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine research registry

The NHS COVID-19 vaccine registry allows members of the public to register their interest and be contacted to take in clinical studies.

If you are 18 years old or over and live in the UK, you can sign up to give permission for researchers to contact you about taking part in COVID-19 vaccine studies.

You are not signing up to take part in a specific health study when you use this service. You are letting researchers know you're happy for them to contact you if they think you might be suitable to take part in their studies.

More information about taking part in research and other opportunities to take part in COVID-19 research can be found at:

Be part of research

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