Where to get the influenza vaccine
This page has information about where to get the influenza vaccine in the ACT.
Children aged 6 months to under 5 years
- Early Childhood Immunisation Clinics
- General practitioners (GP) – you may be charged a consultation fee
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
- Participating pharmacies for people aged 2 years and older – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
People aged 6 months and older with a medical condition that increases risk of influenza complications
- General practitioners (GP) – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Participating pharmacies for people aged 2 years and older – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Early Childhood Immunisation Clinics – funded vaccine for children aged 6 months to under 5 years
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Service – funded vaccine
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples aged 6 months and older
- General practitioners (GP) – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Participating pharmacies for people aged 2 years and older – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Early Childhood Immunisation Clinics – funded vaccine for children aged 6 months to under 5 years
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service – funded vaccine
Anyone pregnant
- General practitioners (GP) – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Health and Community Services Antenatal Clinics – funded vaccine
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service – funded vaccine
- Pharmacies – government funded vaccine at participating pharmacies, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Private antenatal providers – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
People aged 65 years and older
- General practitioners (GP) – funded vaccine, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Pharmacies – funded vaccine at participating pharmacies, but you may be charged a consultation fee
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service – funded vaccine
People living in residential aged care homes
- Residential aged care homes are required to offer influenza vaccination to all residents and staff
- GPs and pharmacists may visit residential aged care homes to provide residents with influenza and COVID-19 immunisation
- Check with the residential aged care home about their program
Anyone aged 5 years to 64 years not eligible for funded vaccine
- General practitioners (GP) – the vaccine is not funded, and you may be charged a consultation fee
- Participating pharmacies – the vaccine is not funded, and you may be charged a consultation fee