Edinburgh Park’s mass vaccination centre will welcome its final patients this weekend as the site prepares for closure on Sunday.
The mass vaccination centre, based within the Royal Bank of Scotland’s former building, will close this weekend, having seen thousands of patients come through its doors.
Over the last four months, since the site opened on Monday 1 March, the vaccination team has administered 82,595 doses of the lifesaving vaccine.
NHS Lothian is now in the process of moving to a more flexible delivery model and will utilise more mobile and surge vaccination clinics. This will allow the board to target people who are still to receive their jab by making it as easy as possible to be vaccinated.
The decommissioning of the site will begin on Monday 12 July. Those in the west Edinburgh area wishing to visit a drop-in clinic at a mass vaccination centre can do so at the Royal Highland Showground. Airport buses have been temporarily diverted to allow passengers to be dropped off directly outside Lowland Hall.
The Edinburgh Park site will still welcome both appointments and drop-ins until closure.
Pat Wynne, Nurse Director of Primary and Community Care, NHS Lothian, said: “The site at RBS has played a key role in the vaccination programme so far and we are really thankful to our team who made it work so well. I would also say thank you to Royal Bank of Scotland for cooperation throughout the site’s operation.
“Anyone wishing to be vaccinated from Monday can do so visiting one of our four mass vaccination drop-in clinics across the region, which are continuing to operate.
“This weekend (10 and 11 July), we will be running our mobile vaccination clinics with the Scottish Ambulance Service at The Centre, Livingston (Sat), and Fort Kinnaird Shopping Centre (Sun). These are open to everyone over the age of 18 for first vaccination, and for those who are due their second vaccination having waited eight weeks.”
