{"id":17450,"date":"2021-10-25T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/uncategorised\/book-covid-19-jabs-online-for-12-15-year-olds\/"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:18:03","slug":"book-covid-19-jabs-online-for-12-15-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/news\/book-covid-19-jabs-online-for-12-15-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Book COVID-19 jabs online for 12-15 year olds"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conjunction with Stockport\u2019s ongoing offer to vaccinate 12-15 year old pupils in school, parents in Greater Manchester are now \u00a0able to book COVID-19 vaccinations online for their 12\u201315 year old children at www.nhs.uk\/book-a-coronavirus-vaccination<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The National Booking Service will provide an additional option for parents to book a vaccination for their child, alongside the schools programme. If a child has already been invited through their school, they can still go ahead as planned and get vaccinated at school.<\/p>\n

Home-educated children, and school children who weren\u2019t able to be vaccinated when it was available at their school, can also attend a half-term walk-in vaccination clinic. This will be at Trinity Methodist Church, 351 Bramhall Lane, Stockport, SK3 8TP on Monday, 25 October, and Wednesday, 27 October, from 8:30am to 3:30pm. No appointment is needed.<\/p>\n

12-15 year olds will be able to attend with a parent, carer or guardian, who will need to provide consent for the child to receive a vaccination. The consent form doesn\u2019t need to be printed and completed in advance.<\/p>\n

Dr Cath Munro, Chair of NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, said: \u201cIn line with government decisions, this new offer to help vaccinate our 12-15 year old children at external vaccination sites is a complementary service to the ongoing school offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that there is still only one dose provided for the majority of 12-15 year olds unless they have a long term health condition that makes them more vulnerable to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that these extra clinics, which can be booked on the NHS National Booking System, will accommodate more parents and children and we will see more 12-15 year olds receive their jab to help protect them, and their families, friends and teachers against Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councillor Colin Foster, Stockport Council\u2019s Cabinet Member for Children, Family Services & Education, said: \u201cWhile we do have an ongoing programme for vaccinating healthy 12-15 year olds in school in Stockport, if any parent would like their child to receive their vaccination more quickly booking through the National Booking Service website is quick and easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vaccine is safe and effective, so it\u2019s really important for young people aged 12-15 to please take up the offer of a vaccination to help protect themselves, their friends, loved ones and wider community, as well as mitigate their chances of suffering the serious effects of Long Covid.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will also be beneficial in helping prevent further disruption to their education.\u201d<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In conjunction with Stockport\u2019s ongoing offer to vaccinate 12-15 year old pupils in school, parents in Greater Manchester are now \u00a0able to book COVID-19 vaccinations online for their 12\u201315-year-old children at www.nhs.uk\/book-a-coronavirus-vaccination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":17057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17465,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450\/revisions\/17465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}