General Health Vaccines and Injections
Our general health vaccines and injections cover routine, year-round services that don’t sit within seasonal, or specialist vaccination programmes. These services are commonly used to support everyday health and wellbeing and are provided following a private clinical consultation to ensure they are appropriate for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Broadly speaking, yes! Our staff are trained to give vaccines for both adults and children.
We vaccinate within the licensing of the vaccine. Some vaccines are licensed for use in children from 9 months onwards.
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Generally as long as you are fit and well, and the vaccines you need are able to be given concomitantly, we can typically accommodate this.
Rather than trying to book this through the website, we’d just ask that you drop us an email at hello@pharmacyclinicedinburgh.co.uk and we can book you in!
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Some people do experience side effects after vaccination. These are typically self limiting, and they usually include:
Headache
Fever
Joint or muscle pain
Pain at the site of injection
Your prescriber will complete a thorough consultation with you during your visit, going through potential side effects and explaining when to seek further help.
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Around 10% of adults are thought to have some form of needle phobia. Just let us know during booking or when you arrive, and we’ll:
Offer a chaperone where possible
Help you with breathing techniques
Make sure we don’t show you the needle
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Each vaccine and injection page has comprehensive information, collated by us from the NHS, NICE, BNF, EMC and ourselves.
If you have a question that can’t be answered on our service page, just drop us an email at hello@pharmacyclinicedinburgh.co.uk
The information on this page was clinically reviewed by Vasiliki (Vicky) Kelidou on 14th May 2026.
Next review due November 2026.
Vicky Kelidou
Clinical Pharmacist, Director, Superintendent Pharmacist, Independent Prescriber
GPhC 2209041