Reference

CMO(2019)09

Name

Details of the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccination programme 2019-20

Categories

Scottish Government CMO Letters

Organization

Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates

Keywords

NHS SCOTLAND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IMMUNISATION OLDER PEOPLE UPTAKE SHINGLES

Description

The shingles vaccination programme was introduced in Scotland in 2013. Each year since then has involved routine vaccination of people aged 70 and a year by year catch up for those aged 71-79. The final catch up group was offered the shingles vaccine in 2018/19. This year, eligibility for the 2019/20 programme is as follows:

• Routine vaccination of 70 year olds (defined by the patient¡¦s age at 1 September 2019)
  
• Opportunistic vaccination of 71¡V79 year olds who have not previously been vaccinated (defined by patients age at 1 September 2019).
  
• Vaccine should not be offered to anyone aged 80 and over, even if they have previously been eligible.

Contact Name

Sarah Dillon

Contact Email

Contact Address

Scottish Government, 3EN, St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh EH1 3DG.

Contact Phone

Created

2019-08-26 00:00:00

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