Further booster vaccinations are being offered to strengthen protection against COVID-19 for people who are particularly at risk of serious illness. This winter, booster COVID vaccinations are being offered to eight groups of people:

• People aged 65 or over
• Residents and staff in care homes for older adults
• People aged 6 months and over with a condition that places them at higher risk 
• Pregnant women 
• Frontline healthcare workers 
• Frontline social care workers 
• Carers (including unpaid and young carers aged 16 and over) 
• Those aged 12 or over who are a household contact of someone with a weakened immune system 

If you are in one of these groups, you should already have been contacted about your vaccination appointment – please do your best to attend. 

In addition, you are eligible for a free flu vaccine if you are in one of these groups:

• Children aged 6 months to 2 years at higher risk of flu 
• Children aged 2 to 5 (and not yet in school) on 1 September 2023
• All primary and secondary school pupils 
• People aged 18 to 64 with a health condition that makes them eligible
• People aged 50 and over 
• Nursery, primary and secondary school teachers and pupil-facing support staff 
• Prison population, prison officers and support staff who deliver direct front-facing detention services 
• Non-frontline NHS healthcare workers 

Please do not contact your GP to book an appointment.

More guidance and information is available on NHS Inform’s coronavirus vaccine page – https://www.nhsinform.scot/covid-19-vaccine