The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced its advice regarding persons who will be eligible for a COVID-19 booster vaccine in autumn 2023.

The advice for this autumn is to offer the vaccine to those at high risk of serious disease and who are therefore most likely to benefit from vaccination.

JCVI advises the following groups be offered a COVID-19 booster vaccine this autumn:

• Residents in a care home for older adults
• All adults aged 65 years and over
• 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)
• Frontline health and social care workers
• Persons aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts (as defined in the Green Book) of people with immunosuppression
• Persons aged 16 to 64 years who are carers (as defined in the Green Book) and staff working in care homes for older adults

Other key advice from JCVI for the autumn 2023 programme is:

• JCVI advises that the autumn programme should aim to complete vaccinations by early December 2023
• From autumn 2023, JCVI additionally advises that primary course COVID-19 vaccination for persons who have not had any COVID-19 vaccines before should consist of a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Eligibility for primary course vaccination will be the same as for the autumn 2023 booster.

NHS England will confirm details on how and when eligible people can access the autumn booster vaccine in due course.