Reminder: Seasonal and Childhood Flu vacs
Reminder: COVID-19 and Adult flu vaccination service registration
Pharmacy owners must use the NHS Business Services Authority’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal to register to provide COVID-19 and adult flu vaccinations in the autumn/winter 2026/27 season.
Any pharmacy owners who registered to provide COVID-19 and adult flu vaccinations by 31st March 2026 (using the NHS England Microsoft Form, which was used before MYS was updated to include the service registration on 1st April 2026) will have their registration for the two vaccinations transferred into MYS and do not need to register again.
Pharmacy owners who did not provide COVID-19 vaccinations during the Spring 2026 campaign or who deregistered from the service during the campaign programme must register/re-register if they intend to provide COVID-19 and adult flu vaccinations in the autumn/winter 2026/27 campaign.
While the interim deadline to be guaranteed to receive supplies of COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the 1st October service commencement date has passed, pharmacy owners can still register to administer both vaccines now. However, it is not guaranteed they will receive COVID-19 vaccine in time for 1st October.
Where a pharmacy owner only wishes to provide adult flu vaccinations, they still need to register to provide the service on MYS.
The final deadline to register to provide COVID-19 and adult vaccinations or only adult flu vaccinations in 2026/27 is 11.59pm on 30th November 2026.
In all cases, pharmacy owners must not administer vaccines until they have registered to provide the service, as they will not be eligible for payment for vaccines administered prior to service registration.
Reminder – Adding C-19 and Flu vaccination appointments to MYA
Pharmacy owners are reminded that they can add appointments for adult flu, COVID-19 and Childhood flu vaccinations to the Manage Your Appointments (MYA) website so that patients and parents / guardians / carers can book appointments on the National Booking Service (NBS) which is already open to the public.
Appointment slots can be added for dates in September to allow pregnant adults to book flu vaccinations in that month, with appointments from 1st October onwards being added for COVID-19, Adult Flu and Childhood Flu vaccinations.
Reminder – use of RAVS from September 2026
From 1st September 2026, community pharmacies must record all NHS vaccinations in the Record a Vaccination Service (RAVS) IT system, either accessing the service directly or via an approved pharmacy IT system.
NHS England is currently working with pharmacy IT suppliers in an attempt to make it easier to access RAVS from their systems. However, pharmacy owners will still need to sign up for a RAVS account if they do not already have one.
Pharmacy owners are advised to contact their current IT system provider to request an update on this integration work and to confirm if their current system will support integration with RAVS for the coming season or whether use of RAVS as a standalone system will be required.
Pharmacy owners without access to RAVS can request access through the following link.
If you have any technical difficulties with using or accessing RAVS, contact the RAVS support team.
Childhood Flu Vaccination Service
Reminder – Interim registration deadline imminent
Pharmacy owners who provided the Childhood Flu Vaccination Service in 2025/26 are required to re-register if they intend to provide the service in 2026/27.
To provide the Childhood Flu Vaccination Service from 1st October 2026, pharmacy owners must have registered via MYS to provide the service by 11.59pm on 31st August 2026 to receive supplies of childhood flu vaccines ahead of the service commencement date.
Pharmacy owners can register after 31st August 2026, however, it is not guaranteed they will receive childhood flu vaccine in time for the Childhood Flu Vaccination Service commencement date.
The final deadline to register to provide the Childhood Flu Vaccination Service in 2026/27 is 11.59pm on 30th November 2026.
Reminder – Expanded cohorts
From 1st October 2026, pharmacies can administer flu vaccines to all children aged 2- and 3-years old and clinically at-risk children aged 4-17 years old.
From 1st December 2026, pharmacies can administer flu vaccinations to school aged children (Reception to Year 11).
Further information and resources on the vaccination services
We are making final updates to our vaccination service webpages ahead of the start of the season. On the pages, you will find further information on the services and a range of resources to help pharmacy owners and their teams to implement the services this autumn.
Seasonal Vaccination Services – COVID-19 and Adult Flu
Childhood Flu Vaccination Service
