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We will increase capacity through the National Treatment Centres across Scotland, which will see activity rise from just over 20,000 in 2024/25 to well over 30,000 in 2025/26.
If we want to prepare the population to be as resistant as possible to Covid-19 and future pandemics, and to bugs in general, one of the best things that we could do would be to invest in physical activity. The difference that physical activity makes to the immune system is greatest for people who are either inactive or who suffer from long-term health conditions, who are also those most susceptible to Covid-19.
Those are the sorts of women whom we help and who will not get help from other people. Even if they get help from other registered bodies, that can take a long time.
Getting a booster does not mean that you will not get Covid—although it will reduce the chance of that happening—but it will significantly enhance your protection against serious illness.