Lothian MSP asks Scottish Government to prioritise palliative care patients for Covid-19 vaccines

The motion also urged the Scottish Government to consider allowing clinicians to fast-track individual patients and their immediate family members whose need for vaccination.

Briggs said prioritising people who have a terminal illness for a Covid-19 vaccine would allow them to live life as fully as possible with family and friends in the limited time they have left.

He said: “With the rollout out of the vaccine to start next week, the Scottish Government is now facing the difficult decisions of who should get the vaccine first.

“My motion at the Scottish Parliament, has called on Ministers to allow clinicians discretion to fast-track individual patients and their immediate family members, so that the people diagnosed with a terminal illness can see their families and loved ones in the limited time they have left.”

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