Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination Information
Liver transplant patients should have been, or should be soon, contacted by their GP about flu and COVID-19 vaccination. If you are offered these vaccines we would recommend you have them. Neither of these are live vaccines so are perfectly safe for liver transplant recipients…
COVID-19 Vaccine Update – Booster Vaccination – “Fourth Jab”
Further to the news update on 16 December 2021. Kings Liver Unit have kindly provided us with the letter for their post liver transplant patients to use if they need it to prove their eligibility for the fourth jab. Click the link below to…
COVID-19 Vaccine Update
We have today been provided with the following update by Dr Aluvihare and Wendy Littlejohn at Kings: “The recommendation is that you receive a third primary dose three months after your second dose. In addition a booster (with Pfizer or Moderna) should be given…
Booster Vaccine For COVID-19
We have received the following advice from the Liver Unit at Kings: “All post-transplant patients who have received both doses of a Covid vaccine and are more than three months post transplant should contact their GP to arrange a booster vaccination as recommended by the…
COVID Resources
The Listen Committee is very aware of how difficult this is for our members – as we are having exactly the same experience ourselves. Our circumstances vary as do those of our members but one thing we know is that it can be very lonely…
Shielding from COVID-19: advice for liver patients
Just recently, the UK government announced plans to ease shielding guidance for people across England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have also eased their guidance for extremely clinically vulnerable groups. The latest guidance comes as scientific evidence shows the chances of encountering the virus in the…