Scotland’s community pharmacies will be eligible to provide the NHS flu vaccination for the first time

Following the recent announcement that Scotland’s NHS flu vaccine will be expanded to include adults aged fifty-five to sixty-four years of age, households of those shielding and social care workers, the government has confirmed that Scotland’s community pharmacies will be eligible to provide the NHS flu vaccination for the first time during this year and next years’ flu season.

The ability for community pharmacies to administer vaccines was now widely permitted, outlined the Scottish government, under this years’ Coronavirus Act, and is limited for two years.

Chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Pharmacy Board, Jonathan Burton, stated: “Community pharmacies, embedded in local communities and providing convenient access to healthcare, are a natural home for many public health services and, in Scotland, already provide very successful national emergency hormonal contraception and smoking cessation services.”