NHS Dumfries & Galloway

COVID-19 Vaccination

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 

Or you can call the national vaccination helpline on 0800 030 8013, or the Dumfries and Galloway local vaccination helpline on 01387 403090.  
 
The local vaccination helpline can also help with any questions about your appointment, including rescheduling a vaccination appointment that you cannot attend. You can also use the national vaccination portal to book or reschedule appointments – https://vacs.nhs.scot/csp
 

Both flu and COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to people most vulnerable to illness and, where possible, administered at the same time. Clinical advice and evidence show that administration of both vaccines together is a safe and efficient way to deliver maximum protection.

Drop in clinics

If you are eligible for a flu or COVID-19 vaccination, you can visit a drop in clinic to receive it without an appointment. You may have to wait to receive your vaccinations if the clinic is busy.

Drop in clinics will be open at the following locations:

DAYDATELOCATION NAMEMORNINGAFTERNOON
MONDAY20/11/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
TUESDAY21/11/2023GRETNA RICHARD GREENHOWE09:30-12:1513:30-15:30
  CATSTRANDS, NEW GALLOWAY09:30-12:1513:30-15:30
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  THORNHILL HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
WEDNESDAY22/11/2023MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  SANQUHAR COMMUNITY HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
THURSDAY23/11/2023CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
FRIDAY24/11/2023DALBEATTIE TOWNHALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:30
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  GLENLUCE  VILLAGEHALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:30
  THORNHILL HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
SATURDAY25/11/2023CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOFFAT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
SUNDAY26/11/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  KIRKCUDBRIGHT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  SANQUHAR COMMUNITY HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
MONDAY 27/11/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  CANONBIE PUBLIC HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
TUESDAY 28/11/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  KIRKCUDBRIGHT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOFFAT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  THORNHILL HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
WEDNESDAY29/11/2023MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  SANQUHAR COMMUNITY HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
THURSDAY30/11/2023CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
FRIDAY01/12/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
SATURDAY 02/12/2023CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOFFAT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
SUNDAY03/12/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  KIRKCUDBRIGHT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  SANQUHAR COMMUNITY HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
MONDAY04/12/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  CANONBIE PUBLIC HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEW ABBEY VILLAGE HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
TUESDAY05/12/2023KIRKCUDBRIGHT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  THORNHILL HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
WEDNESDAY06/12/2023ANNAN VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  KIRKCUDBRIGHT HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  SANQUHAR COMMUNITY HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
     
THURSDAY07/12/2023CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  WAVERLEY MEDICAL CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
     
FRIDAY 08/12/2023CANONBIE PUBLIC HALL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  CASTLE DOUGLAS VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  MOUNTAINHALL VACCINATION CENTRE09:30-12:1513:30-16:15
  NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00
  THORNHILL HOSPITAL09:30-12:1513:30-15:00

COVID Vaccine Explainer

Further information

If you have any questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, visit nhsinform.scot/covid19vaccine