Where you can get the monkeypox vaccine in Greater Manchester next week

A monkeypox clinic will run in Greater Manchester next week, with more planned for the coming fortnight.

Vaccines will be available at The Orange Rooms on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne on Tuesday (September 20) as health officials continue their bid to manage the outbreak of the viral disease. The clinic will run from 10am to 7pm and people can book here.

Further clinics will then run in the region over the next two weeks, NHS bosses said, with specific details yet to be announced. They come after the Greater Manchester became the first place in the country to trial smaller but equally effective doses of the jab.

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The vaccine will as previously be available to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men at highest risk of getting monkeypox, for example if people have multiple partners, participate in group sex or attend ‘sex on premises’ venues, people with a recent bacterial sexually transmitted infection and those eligible for PrEP (the preventative drug for HIV transmission), people who have had recent close contact with someone infected with monkeypox, and healthcare workers caring for and due to start caring for a patient with the virus.

People will be eligible if they have used one of the following providers in Greater Manchester:

Sexual health providers:

GPS:

Monkeypox can be passed on from person to person through:

Keep yourself and others safe:

You can find out more about monkeypox at:

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