Question reference: S5W-33845
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 4 December 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether community pharmacists will be included in the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Answer
Key workers including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, are included in the JCVI priority groups, and are already eligible for a vaccine under cohort 2.
The full JCVI priority list is currently:
• residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
• all those 80 years of age and over, and frontline health and social care workers
• all those 75 years of age and over
• all those 70 years of age and over, and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
• all those 65 years of age and over
• all those aged 16 to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
• all those 60 years of age and over
• all those 55 years of age and over
• all those 50 years of age and over