COVID & FLU VACCINATIONS
To make a booking for a COVID or Flu Vaccination, please visit the NHS National Booking System. Alternatively please pop into your local branch and ask at the counter. Sadly we cannot take bookings via this website.
Covid and Flu Vaccinations now available
The Winter Covid and Flu Vaccinations are now taking place in all our branches (Broomfield branch is only providing Flu Jabs this winter)
If you need a Covid or Flu Vaccination and you meet the NHS Criteria for a vaccination please use the NHS Booking System to book your appointment. Just search using your postcode (or the postcode of the branch you normally use) to see the available appointment slots we have.
We appreciate some of our customers may not be able to use this service, in this instance please pop in to your local branch and ask if the have any availability to see you as a "walk-in" patient — you may need to wait 10 minutes or so to be seen, but we will do what we can to help you get your vaccinations done.
When you visit one of our pharmacies to get you vaccinations please remember to wear something that makes it easy to access the top of your arm without having to roll up tight sleeves. Tee Shirts or short sleeved shirts are ideal.
The following groups of people are eligible for a FREE NHS FLU JAB
The NHS recommends flu vaccination for several groups
- Everyone aged 65 years and over
- Individuals under 65 with certain medical conditions, including children and babies over 6 months of age
- All pregnant women
- All children aged 2 and 3 years (provided they were aged 2 or 3 on 31 August 2024)
- All primary school children
- Some secondary school children (Years 7 to 11)
- Care home residents
- Carers
- Those living with people who are immunocompromised
- Frontline health and social care workers
The following groups of people are eligible for a FREE NHS COVID JAB
- adults aged 65 years and over
- residents in a care home for older adults
- individuals aged 6 months to 64 years in a
clinical risk group - Those who are classed as immunosuppressed
- frontline NHS and social care workers, and those
working in care homes for older people
NHS Pharmacy First Scheme
The NHS Pharmacy First Scheme has been set up to help patients get easy access to advice and treatment for common conditions. This service will allow most chemists in England to issue prescription only medications (where appropriate) to patients without the need to make an appointment with a GP.
There are SEVEN common conditions we are able to treat in the pharmacy
We are also pleased to be able to offer travel vaccinations and advice in most of our pharmacies now, offering very reasonable prices for the vaccines we can supply and administer.
If you are planning an overseas holiday and you would like to find our what vaccinations we offer we would be please to see you.
We are currently running a no consultation fees offer for this service — click the text here to see our poster about this.
Delmergate Pharmacy
Celebrating over 35 years helping the people of Kent with our fast and friendly healthcare service.
Delmergate Ltd is a multi-award winning family run chain of pharmacies based in Kent established on 15th May 1986.
We pride ourselves in providing a “Hassle Free” service for our customers and patients.
Delmergate Ltd has been recognised for exceptional service and during the Alliance Healthcare Pharmacy Awards 2010 we were presented with the “Pharmacy of the Year” award and the “Best Small Multiple Pharmacy Group” award. Delmergate Ltd has also won the “Pharmacy Business of the Year” at the Pharmacy Business awards 2008 and was the recipient of the “Pharmacy Enterprise Award” during the Pharmacy Business Awards 2006. During 2011 we were finalists in the National Orange Business Awards.
In 2021 Delmergate Ltd celebrates being in business for 35 years, we gained the Investors in People Silver standard in 2011 which was later confirmed to be the only family run pharmacy business in the UK to reach this level.
All our pharmacies provide a FREE prescription collection and delivery service as well as offering NHS services such as Smoking Cessation, Weight Management, INR Testing and Anticoagulant Medicines supply. (A full list of the services we provide in each pharmacy can be found via the links on the WHERE WE ARE PAGE) Two of our pharmacies are now NHS Covid Vaccination Centres — Castle Hill (Ebbsfleet) and Repton Park (Ashford) if you would like to book your Covid Booster with us please visit the national NHS Covid Vaccination Booking website https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
Each of our pharmacies is equipped with a private consultation room to ensure complete confidentiality when speaking to our pharmacist of another member of our team.
During the winter months we also provide the FREE NHS Flu Jab service to those that qualify for a free flu vaccination.
BLOGS
Chatham
Kent
ME5 9UR