Vaccination plans for Scotland

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I'm posting here as I can't find any great online about this. Can anyone point me towards plans for Scotland's COVID vaccination for primary care? I'm frontline NHS and received my first dose mid December but to be honest I'm more concerned about when my 78 year old DM and 79 year old in laws will get their vaccine. On Twitter I see multiple tweets from English GPs stating they have vaccinated all the over 80s in their area and are on to overt 70s now.
I just don't seem to be getting the same feelings of impatience in Scotland re the rollout compared with England.

[quote trumpisaflump]@LizzieMacQueen yes I got the leaflet and thanks for the link. I think I'm looking for more concrete information of when and where vaccinations might take place across Scotland. E.g. I gather Edinburgh is planning on using the ECC but no plans for mass vaccination hubs like this in the west of Scotland.
I think if I could at least see a plan for each area I could relax a little.

It doesn't help that I've volunteered to work in vaccination clinics but have a HUGE amount of training to be completed first of all. For example one of the modules from NES is 16 hours long! And that's just one of around 15 training modules I need to complete before I go on a shadowing placement. God knows when I'll actually be able to jab someone! [/quote]
This makes me so angry. Scientists and countless other associated professionals have worked around the clock to produce an EMERGENCY vaccine and get it approved for EMERGENCY use.

Why the hell are people being asked to jump through these hoops just to administer it. Utterly ridiculous.

No idea when I'll get mine but I know staff in my local opticians were vaccinated a couple of weeks ago yet relative who is a nurse in nearest A&E dept hasn't been although they're all in the same health board.

@Bilingualspingual yes 😀 Morningside

I'm in Wales and I think we're behind England, Scotland and N.Ireland.

@Windyone exact same dates

I saw that in England they wanted volunteers for admin and marshalling and stuff for vaccine clinics. can’t see anything similar here. The delay is very frustrating when they’ve had months and months to prepare

I have a friend south of the border who is a midwife. She works bank shifts around her kids and husband and is, as of today, also jabbing people in Manchester.

And here we're still fannying around looking for venues and asking people to complete massive training?

I understand that in rural areas and smaller towns mass vaccination may be better rolled out through GP surgeries. But I'd at least expect there to be one in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee and possibly two in Glasgow, one north of the river and one south - airport and the Emirates velodrome, for example.

I've got an interview for Bank shifts this week, fingers crossed.
I think part of the problem might be that where I live flu clinics are still running and they're being held in larger venues like sports centres. Think the clinics are due to finish up in the next week or so and then those venues will become available for the covid vaccine programme.

The SNP has announced in Holyrood it wont be giving vaccination figures in Scotland apparently it isn't in Nicolas Scotland's interest.

We are also not referring to it as the Oxford vaccine, because, too English.

twitter.com/scotgov/status/1348638428854968320?s=20
That’s not what I’ve read. See link. Travelling tabby also providing figures for number of people vaccinated in Scotland from the figures they provide

I thought she said we were getting daily updates from today on vaccine numbers? I can't say I'm surprised though, I suspect we're falling behind already.

Well if as posters said earlier it's supply issues, then you can't really blame the Scottish gov as the vaccines are ordered nationally. We get 8% ish of whatever comes in.

What will be interesting is how the % of vaccinated people goes up. Not sure of the pro's and con's of mass centres vs GP, given that there are only 2 big cities in Scotland.

Supply issues wouldn't explain why Scotland has vaccinated proportionally fewer people than England as they're distributed on a per capita basis - we get 8% of the vaccines because we have 8% of the UK population.

It looks more like a distribution issue, as we're reportedly just sitting on a huge number of doses and not getting them into people as quickly as elsewhere. Which is why it's frustrating/disappointing to hear that we haven't even secured venues yet. Let's hope they get their act together and speed everything up significantly.

My 88 year old father is getting his on Thursday - Edinburgh. Think it is Morningside Parish Church he has to go to?

@CoolHonda

I wouldn't get any hopes up. Everyone who has had the vaccination is still subject to the same restrictions as everyone else. Still have to shield, still have to restrict household visiting, still have to restrict visits to elders, still have to isolate if contact with an active case, still have to socially distance. Those of us hoping to cuddle elderly parents or grannies wishing to cuddle grandbairns...nope, the vacc makes no difference to restrictions

Why? That’s madness. They will be immune and can’t spread it if they arent infectious!

They don't know how vaccination affects transmission yet. It doesn't make them immune as such, they just don't get the symptoms as badly so can catch it and may or may not be able to transmit it onwards.

Neither my 83 year old mother or friend’s 90 year old mother have heard anything. Both in Edinburgh. England seem way ahead of the game.

@GoLightlyontheEarth you would think so wouldn't you but the vaccine doesn't prevent infection, it lessens the severity of illness. That's why there's loads of news stories on why the virus might still spread.

So the 90 percent immunity we keep being told about isn’t immunity at all then?

So following up on my prior post, my 85 year old dad got a call yesterday telling him to come in tomorrow for his vaccination. Was the first communication he had. At his local GP. Edinburgh West. I’m relieved!

Also, a friends uncle (late 70s) in a care home was vaccinated late December. He tested positive for Covid 2 days ago

The vaccination of the most vulnerable will mean that society can get back to normal as it will then mean it doesn’t matter who gets the virus, as it won’t be serious for them in the huge huge majority of cases.

No word for my elderly relatives in Angus or Stirling.

Forth valley NHS had something on Facebook yesterday saying "we are ready to invite those aged 80 and over to take-up the vaccine". What that means in terms of actual timescales I don't know.

This is alarming

Sorry meant in reply to the Dichess.