NHS Stay Well This Winter - easy read leaflet Dec 2025

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This is an updated version of the ’We are here to help you stay well this winter’ easy read leaflet from the NHS.

It tells you about things you can do to stay well this winter including:

  • Why you should get your flu and coronavirus vaccinations

  • How to get your vaccinations

  • About the flu vaccine

  • About the coronavirus vaccine

  • Other vaccines

  • How to try to not get flu and coronavirus

  • What you can do at home if you are ill

  • Where you can get help if you are ill

  • Getting your prescriptions

  • Treatments for coronavirus

  • Keeping yourself and your home warm

  • Help paying bills

  • Safety at home

  • Help with your mental health

  • Keeping active

  • Where to go for the right medical help including contacting your pharmacy and NHS 111

Download the leaflet here:

251210 SWTW_2025_EasyRead_Web_FINAL.pdf (1.2 MB)

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To find out more and to download this easy read leaflet and other alternative formats visit: nhs.uk/staywell

Formats can also be downloaded and braille requested from the Campaign Resource Centre at campaignresources.dhsc.gov.uk

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Produced and updated by the NHS December 2025.

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HI yesterday & todays links from BDS are not opening.

Cathy

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Thanks for the heads up! They are now working.

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Thanks for flagging Cathy and thanks for sorting Neil!

Barry

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Thanks to everyone for sorting the Easy Read of ‘We are here to help you stay well this winter.’

I hadn’t realised all these topics are in the one so-called ‘leaflet.’ When I see the word leaflet, I would normally think of a single sheet of paper.

I am from Australia. My team do not write Easy Read due to the longstanding evidence on its many issues. I started Easy English more than 20 years ago. Here is a page explaining the significant differences, also with links to some of the research.

We are currently in the midst of a heat wave. This is a project we did a few yeas ago for a council in the Melbourne (Victoria) area. Its initial audience was people new to Australia. However, it is used widely by all the population, including people with intellectual disability.

Thanks, Cathy

Cathy Basterfield

Founder - Access Easy English

Consultant Speech Pathologist

Phone: 0466 579 855

Email: cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au

Web: www.accesseasyenglish.com.au and www.readee.com.au

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We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which

we work and learn and pay respect to the First Nations Peoples and

their elders, past, present and future.

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Thanks very much Cathy for your comments and taking the time to feedback.

This is all really interesting and I’ll take a look at the links and get back to you.

Barry

Thanks again and hope you are ok and keeping safe in Australia.