Immunisation/Vaccination Service

The objective of the NHS Tayside Vaccination Service is to provide a safe, person-centred, comprehensive, consistent and accessible vaccination service for citizens.

The Vaccination Service delivers all vaccines recommended by Public Health Scotland and provided by the NHS to all eligible citizens across Tayside. The vaccination reach extends across all services such as Maternity, Paediatric/infants, Care home residents and citizens who require to be visited at home for vaccinations. All specialist services are in liaison with the vaccination services for any programmes which are limited to their particular needs. The Childhood Immunisation team ensure all vaccinations are delivered as per the Scottish School vaccination programme.

Service Description

Since the implementation of The Scottish Vaccination Transformation Programme, GPs are no longer responsible for the delivery of vaccinations. Most vaccines (unless specific local arrangement in place) are now delivered by the NHS Tayside Vaccination Service.

Tayside Central Vaccination Service
Clinics Operate from 3 central sites – Dundee City, Perth City and Angus-Forfar. These clinics are nurse led clinics. The central clinics are supported by pop-up clinics to support travel and access for citizens where possible. For eligible citizens home visits are organised and we routinely visit other facilities such as Care Homes for older adults. As well as Mon-Fri weekday clinics we occasionally offer out of hours and weekends, these will be communicated on social media. There are regular updates on the NHS Tayside Facebook page.

Information on clinics can be obtained via tay.cvs@nhs.scot
Patient information leaflets on all vaccines can be found by using the “search for product” function on MRHA website.

Travel Vaccinations (tay.travelvaccines@nhs.scot)

This Service is for any /all travellers who require advice and /or vaccinations for travelling to a destination considered at risk of tropical disease. This service includes provision of vaccination to children. The four vaccinations included in this service offering are polio (given as a combined diptheria/tetanus/polio vaccine-Revaxis), Hepatitis A, Typhoid and Cholera.
Advice is given re other vaccinations/yellow fever/malaria etc which can be provided by private clinics across NHS Tayside. We do not recommend specific clinics. NHS Inform Yellow fever | NHS inform provides Travel Health information including a search for your nearest Yellow Fever Centre.

Childhood Immunisation Service (tay.childhoodimmunisation@nhs.scot)

Childhood immunisation services are not part of the Central Vaccination Service. They are part of the Children and young people directorate – we are all connected to Public Health Dept. Public Health fully support Childhood Immunisations.
The childhood immunisation programme is well established and the teams work closely with all schools/care facilities as well as with all pregnant/ new mothers/infants.

Who to Refer

Referrals for Out of Schedule and Ad-hoc vaccinations summary table
Anyone who requires vaccination for annual scheduled vaccinations such as Flu, Covid as well as Pneumococcus and Shingles.
Tetanus post exposure vaccination
Travel vaccines and Out of schedule vaccinations such as a specific request from a specialist service for specific citizens.

Who not to Refer

Patients requesting Yellow Fever Vaccination
Suspected rabies exposure

How to Refer

General Public Enquiries for all vaccines

Please refer all public enquires to tay.cvs@nhs.scot or Telephone 01382 423108)

Professional ONLY e-mail enquiries:

General scheduled vaccine enquiries to tay.cvs@nhs.scot
Out of schedule vaccine enquiries to tay.vaccinationservice@nhs.scot
Travel vaccination enquiries to tay.travelvaccines@nhs.scot
Rabies tay.id@nhs.scot

Useful Contact Numbers

NHST Programme Vaccine Managers (Public Health) - 01382 596976

Adult Vaccinations: -
Email - tay.cvs@nhs.scot Tel number - 01382 423108

Childhood vaccinations: -
Email - tay.chd@nhs.scot