What the cost was of the previous winter vaccination programme, broken down by NHS board.

The Scottish Government welcomes the innovation, continuous improvement and efficiency that Health Board delivery teams have demonstrated to make best use of resources and funding throughout our national vaccination programmes, which remain a key public health intervention.The Scottish Government provided £80 million on an National Resource Allocation formula (NRAC) basis to cover local Board vaccine delivery costs for the full financial year 2023/24.These funds were allocated to the following programmes, the largest of which was the winter Seasonal Flu & COVID-19 booster programme:Spring 2023 COVID-19 programme6 months – 4 years at risk COVID-19 programmechanges to the COVID-19 primary rolling offerCOVID-19 vaccination out-with seasonal programmes for the clinically extremely vulnerable and for travel or visa purposesWinter Seasonal Flu & COVID-19 booster programme 2023Boards also used this funding to deliver across the full range of other vaccine programmes. A breakdown of investment provided to each Health Board is as follows.Allocations by Territorial Board 2023-24Unified Budget target sharesNRAC ShareNHS Ayrshire and Arran7.32%£5,854,246NHS Borders2.15%£1,716,573NHS Dumfries and Galloway2.97%£2,373,498NHS Fife6.86%£5,488,643NHS Forth Valley5.46%£4,370,004NHS Grampian9.81%£7,845,888NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde22.18%£17,743,815NHS Highland6.58%£5,265,083NHS Lanarkshire12.28%£9,824,970NHS Lothian14.97%£11,976,356NHS Orkney0.49%£394,381NHS Shetland0.48%£380,909NHS Tayside7.80%£6,239,202NHS Western Isles0.66%£526,432Total100.00%£80,000,000Additional funding from Scottish Government: £25.85MIn addition, the Scottish Government also provided £25.85 million of additional national investment into services to support the Boards beyond the £80 million allocation. This included:Scottish Ambulance Service: £1.1 millionFor a mobile vaccination outreach service to support the territorial Boards. This service is utilised by Boards to target specific communities where uptake is low, such as areas of high SIMD, or ethnic communities, as well supporting delivery in remote and rural areas.NHS National Services Scotland (NSS): £20 millionThis funded the National Contact Centre, which operates the National Vaccination Helpline for booking, rescheduling and cancelling flu and Covid appointments for those who did not wish to use, or cannot use, the online booking portal. The helpline also gives a range of other information on the programme and provided outbound calling services to boards. It also supported digital vaccination services such as the online booking portal for Covid and flu, as well the national vaccination scheduling service.NHSl Education Scotland (NES): £2 millionThis funded additional digital services for the recording and storage of national vaccination uptake data via the vaccine management tool (VMT) and the vaccination National Clinical Data Store (NCDS). It also funded NES’s vaccination workforce education team, providing high quality training materials to vaccinators and health professionals, including a live vaccinator webinar for the winter 2023-24 flu and Covid programme.Public Health Scotland: £2.75 millionFor vaccination programme operational delivery co-ordinationVaccine Supply Costs: 26 millionAll costs regarding storage and distribution of COVID-19 and adult flu vaccines were met by the Scottish Government.The Scottish Government has invested £14.4million in adult flu vaccine supplies and £11.6 million in child flu vaccine supplies. (Adult flu was also funded in part from Health Board baseline budgets to a total of £10.39 million.)COVID-19 vaccines were procured by the UK Government on behalf of the four nations.