See advice on how to help protect against serious, vaccine-preventable diseases. You'll also find schedule information as to when immunisations are offered, such as during pregnancy, infancy, adolescence and other times throughout your life, and where they'll be given.
Vaccinations for babies, children and young people
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Vaccinations available for babies, pre-school children and young people from 11 years.
Important: Routine child immunisation
If your child is due a vaccination as part of their routine immunisation schedule, and you haven't already received a letter, please call us to book a convenient appointment.
Important: To find out about your child’s vaccination record
Check your child’s red book for details about immunisations they’ve received.
Pre-school aged children
- email chsp.preschool@nhs.scot
- phone 01463 701 319
- or phone 01463 701 318
- or phone 01463 701 317
School aged children
- email chsp.school@nhs.scot
- phone 01463 701 314
If you don’t have a red book for your child, and you live in Argyll and Bute:
- email chsp.bute@nhs.scot
Vaccines for children - one less thing to worry about (video)
Being a parent is tough. Getting your child vaccinated means one less thing to worry about. Look out for their letters in the post or visit NHS inform to find out more.
Important: Vaccines for children - at NHS inform
Your child will be offered a range of vaccines at different stages during their childhood. These vaccines help protect them against serious diseases. You may not have heard of all of the diseases because vaccines have made many of them very rare in Scotland.
However, it’s important that children are still vaccinated against these diseases. If children are not vaccinated, these diseases will become more common again.
Many of these diseases can have life-changing consequences. Some can also be life-threatening.
The immunisation schedule has recently changed. This means that some children will be offered vaccines at different times in their lives. When they’ll be offered vaccines will depend on when they were born.
Read more at NHS inform about the vaccines your child will be offered, and the immunisation schedule:
Vaccines for children - at NHS informVaccination against meningitis
Two different types of meningococcal vaccines are available in Scotland and are part of routine immunisation programmes for children and young people:
- The Meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine was introduced in 2015 and is offered to infants and young children under 2 years old.
- The Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) vaccine is offered to all young people in S3 as part of the school-based immunisation programme. This vaccine protects against disease caused by meningococcal groups A, C, W and Y. Anyone who has missed the MenACWY vaccine offer can still receive this up to their 25th birthday - read more at NHS inform about how to catch up.
Parents are encouraged to check if their children are up to date on their vaccinations.
The Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) continues to review evidence on the most effective use of meningococcal vaccines within the UK routine schedule. There are currently no plans to offer MenB vaccination outside the existing routine childhood schedule - read a March 2026 update at Public Health Scotland.
Child flu vaccine
Influenza (flu) is an infectious respiratory virus. Symptoms may include fever, cough, headache and tiredness.
Flu can be serious, even for healthy young people.
NHS Scotland recommends all eligible children should get the flu vaccine to help protect them from influenza (flu). The vaccine is given as a painless nasal spray.
Important: Help by phone or email
Our Service Delivery Centre provides a centralised point of contact for the population of the NHS Highland area, co-ordinating vaccination appointments. The Service Delivery Centre can be contacted to:
- book an appointment
- rearrange an appointment
- cancel an appointment (please let us know so we can offer a place to someone else)
- provide assistance with general vaccination enquiries
When leaving a message by phone or email, please include your name and address (including postcode). One of the team will get back to you as soon as possible.
Please do not send repeated voicemails and emails - we will attend to messages in order. This will help the team to get back to everyone quickly.
Call or email
email nhsh.vaccinationenquiries@nhs.scot
Please use this email address for enquiries whenever possible.
phone 0800 032 0339
Available:
- Monday: 9:15am to 5:00pm
- Tuesday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Wednesday: 9:30am to 5:00pm
- Thursday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Friday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
You can leave a voicemail outside these hours with details. The line is closed on public holidays.