THE final preparations were yesterday (Friday) being put in place for the drivethrough mass vaccination centre, and first of its kind in Lothian, at Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh ahead of its opening on Wednesday. The site will initially be capable of vaccinating about 720 people every day at 12 stations. Attendance is by appointment only. It has an overall capacity of 16 stations for vaccinating up to 8,000 people a week. Teams of vaccinators will be able to deliver vaccines to people while they are in their own cars. When it opens it will become the third mass vaccination centre to open in the Lothians, joining the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and Royal Highland Centre, with the latter due to open next month.
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SCOTTISH health chiefs claimed their vaccine programme was performing ahead of expectations today despite failing to reach their target of delivering one million injections by the end of January.
Claims of thrown out Covid vaccine doses attributed to teething challenges CLAIMS staff at a mass vaccination centre were told to throw away unused doses at the end of their shift have been attributed to teething challenges . The Scotsman reported staff at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) raised the alarm following outrage over the practice. A vaccinator told the paper they were instructed to discard of unused doses if they reached the end of their shift with some still in their vial. They said this was a disgrace and that colleagues were disgusted with what we were told . The retired practice nurse said: As the vials are each vaccinators own responsibility, if they come to the end of their shift with doses left in their vial it is thrown out as it cannot be passed to a colleague to use the remaining dosage.
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