NHS Tayside is urging Perth and Kinross residents to ensure the contact details their GP has for them are up to date.
The plea comes after half of those due to be vaccinated at one of Scotland’s largest vaccination centres - Glasgow’s SSE Hydro - failed to turn up in one weekend.
While NHS Tayside said uptake levels remain “extremely high”, vaccination teams are monitoring attendance and looking at alternative ways to deliver vaccines to ensure as many residents are vaccinated as possible.
The health board strongly recommends everyone get the vaccine when it is offered to them.
An NHS Tayside spokesperson said: “We are making good progress in Tayside but the virus has not completely gone away.
“The vaccine is your best protection against coronavirus and we strongly recommend that everyone gets the vaccine when offered it.
“Overall, uptake levels in the vaccine programme in Tayside remain extremely high.
“There will be a variety of reasons why people do not attend their appointment and the vaccination team continues to closely monitor attendance at appointments. They are also developing options for alternative ways to deliver clinics to ensure that as many people in Tayside are able to take up the offer of a vaccination when it is offered.”
People not notifying their GP after having moved house is thought to be one reason for no-shows.
The spokesperson said: “One of the reasons we believe people are not attending is that they are no longer at the address registered with their GP.
Invitation letters are being sent to the address people have registered with their GP practice so it’s really important that people keep their details up to date.
“If anyone is unable to attend their appointment, they should reschedule for a more suitable date and time.
“This will ensure that appointments are not wasted and can be offered to other people.
“There is information in all booking letters and on NHS inform about how to change appointments through the national booking system.
“You can call the national helpline on 0800 030 8013.”
NHS Tayside told the Perthshire Advertiser its vaccine clinics are organised in such a way as to keep the number of doses left unused at the end of the day to a minimum.
The number of vials are managed according to the numbers who attend a clinic.
NHS Tayside has now delivered over 400,000 vaccine doses and the programme is now vaccinating all those aged 30-39 and continuing to support delivery of second doses.
