Vaccination and immunisation Welsh Health Circulars (WHC)

Welsh Health Circulars providing guidance for health professionals on vaccination and immunisation.

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27 January 2023

Last updated:

2 February 2026

List of Welsh Health Circulars

Update on RSV vaccination programme 2026 (WHC/2025/053)

2 February 2026 Policy and strategy
COVID-19 spring vaccination programme 2026 (WHC/2025/052)

15 January 2026 Guidance
Pneumococcal vaccination: product change (WHC/2025/054)

17 December 2025 Policy and strategy
Routine varicella (chickenpox) vaccination for young children from 1 January 2026 (WHC/2025/046)

3 November 2025 Policy and strategy
Introduction of a new RSV passive immunisation from autumn 2025 (WHC/2025/029)

14 August 2025 Policy and strategy
Expansion of shingles immunisation for severely immunosuppressed people aged 18 to 49 (WHC/2025/028)

14 August 2025 Policy and strategy
The national COVID-19 vaccination programme autumn 2025 (WHC/2025/022)

27 June 2025 Guidance
Introduction of routine vaccinations for mpox and gonorrhoea (WHC/2025/021)

11 June 2025 Policy and strategy
The national influenza immunisation programme 2025 to 2026 (WHC/2025/020)

12 August 2025 Policy and strategy
Changes to routine childhood and selective neonatal hepatitis B vaccinations (WHC/2025/019)

22 May 2025 Policy and strategy
Update on RSV vaccination programme 2025 (WHC/2025/016)

7 May 2025 Policy and strategy
COVID-19 spring vaccination programme 2025 (WHC/2024/047)

19 December 2024 Guidance
Change to the influenza vaccination programme 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/046)

4 December 2024 Policy and strategy
Pertussis vaccination for healthcare workers (WHC/2024/043)

15 November 2024 Policy and strategy
Winter respiratory framework 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/037)

20 September 2024 Policy and strategy
Winter respiratory vaccination programme 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/033) (expired)

25 July 2025 Guidance
Introduction of RSV vaccination programme 2024 (WHC/2024/032)

25 June 2024 Policy and strategy
The national influenza immunisation programme 2024 to 2025 (WHC/2024/028)

12 June 2024 Guidance
COVID-19 spring booster 2024 (WHC/2024/009) (expired)

25 July 2025 Guidance
Vaccination of children to protect against measles (WHC/2024/008)

2 February 2024 Policy and strategy
Influenza vaccines and eligible cohorts for the 2024 to 2025 season (WHC/2023/047)

11 June 2024 Policy and strategy
Change to the influenza (flu) vaccination programme 2023 to 2024 (WHC/2023/044)

11 December 2023 Policy and strategy
Vaccination of healthcare staff to protect against measles (WHC/2023/043)

14 December 2023 Policy and strategy
COVID-19 vaccine products (WHC/2023/33) (expired)

25 July 2025 Guidance
Winter respiratory vaccination programme 2023 to 2024 (WHC/2023/029)

21 August 2023 Guidance
Changes to shingles vaccinations (WHC/2023/024)

2 January 2025 Guidance
The National Influenza Immunisation Programme 2023 to 24 (WHC/2023/023)

22 June 2023 Guidance
HPV immunisation programme update (WHC/2023/016)

12 May 2023 Guidance
COVID-19 vaccination observation periods/ vaccination following recovery from COVID-19 (WHC/2023/015) (expired)

25 July 2025 Guidance
COVID-19 vaccination of children aged 6 months to 4 years in a clinical risk group (WHC/2023/09) (expired)

25 July 2025 Guidance
COVID-19 spring booster 2023 (WHC/2023/04)

8 March 2023 Guidance
Eliminating hepatitis (B and C) as a public health threat: actions for 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 (WHC/2023/001)

16 January 2023 Guidance
Influenza (flu) vaccination programme deployment ‘mop up’ 2022 to 2023 (WHC/2022/035)

22 December 2022 Guidance
Reimbursable vaccines and eligible cohorts for the 2023 to 2024 NHS seasonal influenza (flu) vaccination programme (WHC/2022/031)

8 December 2022 Guidance
Follow-up advice on the polio catch-up programme for children under 5 years old (WHC/2022/029)

22 November 2022 Guidance
Urgent polio catch-up programme for children under 5 years old (WHC/2022/027)

24 October 2022 Guidance
Changes to the vaccine for the HPV immunisation programme (WHC/2022/023)

9 September 2022 Guidance
Influenza (flu) vaccination programme deployment ‘mop up’ 2022 to 2023 (WHC/2022/035)

22 December 2022 Guidance
Changes to the vaccine for the HPV immunisation programme (WHC/2022/015)

1 June 2022 Guidance
Reimbursable vaccines and eligible cohorts for the 2022 to 2023 NHS seasonal influenza (flu) vaccination programme (WHC/2022/010)

29 March 2022 Guidance
Introduction of Shingrix® for immunocompromised individuals from September 2021 (WHC/2021/021)

1 September 2021 Guidance
The national influenza immunisation programme 2021 to 2022 (WHC/2021/019)

4 August 2021 Guidance
The national influenza immunisation programme 2021 to 2022 (WHC/2021/004)

19 February 2021 Guidance
The national influenza immunisation programme 2020 to 2021 (WHC/2020/013)

14 August 2020 Guidance
The national influenza immunisation programme 2020 to 2021 (WHC/2020/009)

21 May 2020 Guidance
Continuation of immunisation programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic: letter from CMO (WHC/2020/006)

6 April 2020 Guidance
Infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) immunisation schedule: changes (WHC/2019/041)

19 December 2019 Guidance
Ordering influenza vaccines for 2020 to 2021 (WHC/2019/037)

28 November 2019 Guidance
Pertussis vaccination for healthcare workers (WHC/2019/024)

30 July 2019 Guidance
The national influenza immunisation programme 2019 to 2020 (WHC/2019/015)

16 April 2019 Guidance
Changes to the shingles immunisation programme (WHC/2019/008)

14 February 2019 Guidance
Ordering influenza vaccinations for 2019 to 2020: update (WHC/2019/002)

30 January 2019 Guidance
Eligibility for non routine immunisations (WHC/2018/048)

12 November 2018 Guidance
Ordering influenza vaccinations for 2019 to 2020 (WHC/2018/045)

12 November 2018 Guidance
Flu vaccinations and clinics for the over 65s (WHC/2018/037)

29 August 2018 Guidance
Flu vaccinations for residential care and nursing home staff in 2018 (WHC/2018/036)

23 August 2018 Guidance
Supply and ordering of BCG vaccine (WHC/2018/034)

31 July 2018 Guidance
Ordering adjuvanted flu vaccine 2018 to 2019 (WHC/2018/015)

5 April 2018 Guidance
Hexavalent vaccine for baby immunisation schedule (WHC/2017/039)

9 August 2017 Guidance
Change of vaccine for routine primary infant immunisation (WHC/2017/022)

15 May 2017 Guidance
Changes to the shingles immunisation programme (WHC/2017/017)

7 April 2017 Guidance
HPV vaccination for men who have sex with men (WHC/2017/003)

13 January 2017 Guidance
Removal of the meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) vaccine for babies (WHC/2016/027)

14 April 2016 Guidance
Change to the pertussis vaccination programme for pregnant women (WHC/2016/020)

16 June 2016 Guidance
Introduction of MenB immunisation for infants (WHC/2015/040)

27 July 2015 Guidance
Meningococcal ACWY conjugate vaccination (WHC/2015/037)

23 July 2015 Guidance
Changes to the shingles vaccination programme (WHC/2015/019)

30 April 2015 Guidance

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