A new large COVID-19 vaccination clinic will soon open in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre in Dunfermline.

The new vaccination clinic, which will open later this month, will be based within the former DW Sports store in the centre.

The new site was chosen due to its considerable size, its location in the centre of Dunfermline, good public transport links and good availability of parking nearby. 

The COVID-19 vaccination programme in Fife began back in December 2020, with care home residents and frontline health and social care workers amongst the first to be vaccinated, followed by those aged 80 and over.

Public vaccination clinics opened in February 2021 followed in Spring with a number of mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics, which increased the volume of vaccines that could be given and sped up the space of the vaccination campaign.

NHS Fife Director of Public Health, Dr Joy Tomlinson, said:

“More than 250,000 people in Fife have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and this has not only helped reduced spread of the virus, it has also helped reduce hospital admissions and prevented some of the most vulnerable from becoming seriously unwell.

“With the virus continuing to circulate, it remains as important as ever to get vaccinated. As we move into the next phase of the vaccination campaign, the new clinic at the Kingsgate Shopping Centre will play an important role in helping protect local people against COVID-19 and its effects.”

The new vaccination site will replace the existing vaccination clinic at Carnegie Conference Centre, which opened in April 2021 and was offered to NHS Fife by Fife College to assist in the delivery of the vaccination programme.

On the use of the facilities at Carnegie Conference Centre, Dr Tomlinson added:

“We want to offer our more sincere thanks to Fife College for allowing us to use Carnegie Conference Centre as a mass vaccination clinic over recent months.

“NHS Fife has a strong relationship with Fife College stretching back many years. Working together has enabled us to deliver more than 52,000 vaccinations at the Carnegie site, helping protect people from across Fife against COVID-19 and it’s effects.”

For details of the various drop-in clinics available across Fife, visit: www.nhsfife.org/dropinclinics.

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