Minister of State – Rt Hon Sir John Whittingdale OBE MP (jointly with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)*X Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* – Amanda Solloway MP (and a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)) Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women) – Maria Caulfield (jointly with the Department of Health and Social Care)

Use different colors and symbols when writing down notes on your templates. To help you out, you can include a legend at the bottom in case you forget what these colors and symbols mean. Symbols can be very useful for:

We are grateful for your ongoing leadership of a world-leading vaccination programme, which helps keep people well and protect those most at risk from the effects of these vaccine preventable diseases, and we look forward to working with you to deliver a successful campaign in AW23/24.

Minister of State – Rt Hon Lord Benyon* (jointly with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

If you have any recurring meetings, deadlines or appointments, list them down beforehand. For instance, if you regularly visit your doctor or dentist, make a note of the appointments on the template too. Always have an appointment schedule template handy so you can organize all of the appointments you plan to set, and you’ll be able to keep them too. As soon as you set an appointment, jot it down on the template along with all of the important details about it.

Flu and COVID-19 vaccination for all cohorts should be completed by 15 December 2023, with all systems identifying opportunities to maximise the offer of co-administration of flu and COVID-19, to improve convenience and uptake for communities. We will set out some narrow clinical exceptions in the coming days. Minister of State – Julia Lopez MP (jointly with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)X Persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as laid out in the Immunisation Green Book, COVID-19 Chapter (Green Book) Come up with the symbols on your own and try to choose those which you will easily remember. Keep on adding symbols and replacing them as you see fit. Remember that you will create and personalize the template for yourself which means that you’re in charge of what goes into the document.Lord in Waiting – Lord Caine (and a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Northern Ireland Office*)

To maximise and extend protection during the winter and through the period of greatest risk in December 2023 and early January 2024, systems must commence vaccination for care home residents and care home staff from 2 October 2023, and other eligible flu and COVID cohorts from the 7 October . X Julia Lopez MP has been re-appointed as a Minister of State jointly in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology following her maternity leave. Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Women and Equalities – Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MPIf you have to, take some time off from school or work so you can make the appointment you’ve set. In some cases, you may also have to remind the person you’re meeting about the appointment so he/she will arrive on time as well. After confirmation, you can change the symbol into a different symbol which represents the confirmation. To give maximum protection to frontline health social care workers and to protect patients and residents, all systems are asked to ensure convenient flu and COVID-19 vaccination opportunities are available from 7 October 2023. All frontline eligible staff will continue to be able to self-declare on NBS and we expect all systems to have communication plans in place to maximise uptake for this group. Training materials and contracts: National Protocols (NP), Patient Group Directions (PGD) and updated training materials will be published for the COVID-19 campaign. Updated flu and COVID-19 contracts can be found in Appendix 1.