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NHS Lothian has delivered 643,946 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The healthcare board’s staff vaccination programme is now complete meaning that all frontline workers have had their second dose, giving them greater protection while they work.
Care home residents across Lothian have also been given two doses of the vaccine ensuring they have the maximum amount of protection possible.
Second dose appointments are also underway for the housebound and the over 80s, as well as the clinically extremely vulnerable and the over 75s.
Having successfully vaccinated nearly all of Lothian’s most at-risk people, staff are now set to begin vaccinating cohort 10, meaning that all 40-49-year-olds will receive their appointments soon.
MORE than 30,000 vaccination appointments have been missed since NHS Lothian set up mass vaccination centres in Edinburgh and the Lothians. During February, when the health board’s mass vaccination centres opened, 8,641 of the 102,460 appointments scheduled by NHS Lothian were not attended by patients – about one in every 12 vaccine appointments. Among the mass vaccination centres is Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh. However, in March, 22,106 of the 140,190 scheduled appointments were missed by patients – more than one in every seven appointments. In the same month, NHS Lothian, Royal Mail, the National Delivery Programme and NHS National Services Scotland published a joint apology after a number of vaccines were unable to take place due to delays in patients receiving their vaccine appointments via post.
Lothian residents miss Covid vaccinations after appointment letters arrive late as apology issued
A statement released today apologised to everyone affected for any inconvenience caused by the late vaccination appointments.
Updated (Image: Getty Images)
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NHS Lothian and the Royal Mail have issued a joint apology after a number of Covid vaccination appointment were missed at the beginning of the week due to tardy appointment letters. A joint statement released by NHS National Services Scotland addressed the recent issues with vaccine appointments in the Lothian area, and apologised for their late arrival. The statement read: The national programme would like to apologise to any resident who missed an appointment and for any inconvenience caused. Although the vast majority of vaccination appointments run smoothly, the national delivery partners met today to build a better understanding of what happened on this occasion.
Updated: March 17, 2021, 4:45 pm
Anyone who missed an appointment will automatically receive another slot for next week (Jane Barlow/PA)
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A number of coronavirus vaccinations have had to be rearranged after a problem with letter deliveries.
NHS National Services Scotland has apologised after appointments for Monday were missed in the Lothian area following the late arrival of invitation letters.
Anyone who missed an appointment will automatically receive another in the week starting Monday March 22.