NHS Lanarkshire has now completed administering the first dose of its coronavirus vaccine to eligible care home residents.
Hamilton’s Abercorn care home was the first in Scotland to have residents vaccinated in min-December with 90 year old Annie Innes being the country’s first care home resident to receive the vaccine.
Since then, almost 2,990 Lanarkshire care home residents have been vaccinated.
The first dose of the vaccine, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, will be followed up by the second booster dose 12 weeks later in line with Scottish Government guidelines.
Trudi Marshall, Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire nurse director, who is managing the care home vaccination programme across the whole of Lanarkshire, said: “We very rapidly scaled up our nursing workforce and carried out detailed planning in a very short time to enable us to roll the vaccinations out to some of our most vulnerable residents.
“We have been vaccinating every day since we started the programme on 14 December and it has been hugely encouraging see just how hard care home staff are working to keep residents safe.
“They have worked closely with health and social care staff every step of the way to ensure residents are prepared for their vaccines. I’m also incredibly proud of our staff who have devised and carried out this vaccination programme so quickly and diligently.”
