• Some people over 40 have being turned away for Covid vaccine boosters but Nicola Sturgeon says this is down to "glitches in the system" and people should rebook an appointment.
• Infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow are brought up again with concerns raised over another child death at the flagship facility.

• Calls for extra support for sufferers of Long Covid are made as new data from the Office for National Statistics shows an estimated 99,000 people in Scotland have long Covid.
• Scottish Tory MSP Tess White raises concerns about children under the age of four are being prescribed anti-depressants.
• Nicola Sturgeon calls the UK government's Union Connectivity Review an "attempted power grab", taking decisions around priorities away from Scottish ministers.

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Tory MSP Graham Simpson asks the first minister about her response to the UK government's Union Connectivity Review.

Ms Sturgeon says she is still looking at it but there does not seem to be much in it for Scotland.

The first minister calls it an "attempted power grab", taking decisions around priorities away from Scottish ministers.

"If UK ministers want to be helpful why don't they just deliver the funding needed for infrastructure investment in line with the established budgetary mechanisms for Scotland so that this democratically-elected parliament can determine our own spending priorities," she says.

Mr Simpson says the UK and Scottish government should work together.

Ms Sturgeon says they will work with the UK government but reminds the Tory MSP that it was not long ago that the UK government was talking of a bridge to Northern Ireland.

She says she also has to check that money given with one hand is not taken away with the other.

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Scottish Tory MSP Tess White says children under the age of four are being prescribed anti-depressants.

She says the number of children aged five to 14 on anti-depressants has risen massively in recent years.

Ms White asks what action is being taken to extend community-based mental health services and to ensure there is an adequate pipeline of qualified counsellors for schools.

Ms Sturgeon says prescribing is a clinical decision by physicians. She says it is important not to stigmatise the use of anti-depressants.

The first minister says it is important that people are not being prescribed anti-depressants instead of more appropriate alternatives.

Ms Sturgeon says they are trying to shift the focus on child and adolescent mental health into more early intervention.

She says the government is investing in counselling in schools and communities so there are alternatives.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton raises new data from the Office for National Statistics that shows an estimated 99,000 people in Scotland have long Covid.

Mr Cole-Hamilton says long Covid sufferers “need new hope” and asks “where are the long Covid clinics? Where are the community nurses?”

Ms Sturgeon says she “recognises the plight” of people with what she says is a “dreadful condition”.

She adds, “I don’t accept our response has been equal to the scale of the challenge,” but adds that extra money will be required in future Scottish government budgets.

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Scottish Conservative MSP Rachael Hamilton asks the first minister why it took until Tuesday for her to acknowledge the devastation caused to the Scottish Borders by Storm Arwen on Friday.

Ms Hamilton says a frail and vulnerable 87-year-old constituent had to sit by a coal fire without power and heat to the rest of her house.

The first minister says the Scottish government has been heavily involved in coping with the aftermath of Storm Arwen.

She expresses her sympathies to everyone who was impacted. She says the impact was extreme and some were still suffering.

Ms Sturgeon says about 3,300 are still not connected to the power supply and adds that there are lessons to be learned once everyone is back on power.

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Mr Sarwar raises the case of a six-month-old child that died at the children’s hospital in the QEUH campus.

The Scottish Labour leader says the baby’s death certificate listed a bacterial infection linked to water and claims the mum has no confidence in the health board.

“Either you are not being told the truth, or you are hiding the truth,” says Mr Sarwar.

Ms Sturgeon refutes Mr Sarwar's suggestion and says the government and health board have implemented the majority of recommendations made by independent reports into the hospital.

She adds that all potential infection outbreaks at hospitals are flagged to ministers.

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar claims Nicola Sturgeon “chose the wrong side” when failing to back calls for the management of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to resign.

Two women grieving loved ones, who died after contracting infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow,want the health board's bosses to be replaced.

Ms Sturgeon said:“I absolutely understand the questions they have, I want to get them the answers they want.”

The first minister went on to say the “evidence does not bear out” suggestions the hospital is unsafe, adding, “no hospital anywhere in the world can eliminate the risk of infection.”

Mr Ross says there is a backlog of people across the country waiting for their vaccine.

He says he has been calling for return of mass vaccination centres to roll out the booster vaccines as soon as possible.

The first minister says keeping the pace of the vaccination programme is very important and many health boards are putting on extra clinics.

Ms Sturgeon says again that Scotland is the most vaccinated part of the UK.

She asks Douglas Ross to give the vaccinators the credit they deserve.

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The Scottish Conservative leader says the Scottish government's communication has been a mess.

On Monday the chief medical told everyone to book an appointment for a booster, he says.

On Tuesday, the national clinical director told people if they turned up for a booster they would get it, Mr Ross adds.

He says the first minister also told people to bring forward their booster appointments when she was in the chamber on Tuesday.

Ms Sturgeon again says a very small number of people were wrongly turned away but many people got their vaccinations within the updated guidance.

She concedes that a small number of people had an experience they should not have had.

Ms Sturgeon repeats that the vaccination programme has been a huge success and we should not lose sight of that.

Douglas Ross says people are still being turned away from booster appointments today and the problem has not been solved.

He says five health boards are to implement the guidance soon but four others are not yet even planning to do so.

Ms Sturgeon reiterates that the guidance has been issued by the chief medical officer and all health boards now have it.

She says it is an enormous logistical exercise and these things do not always go smoothly.

Ms Sturgeon again says that only a small number of people have been affected

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland has the fastest vaccination programme anywhere in the UK.

She says she is very sorry for anyone who was turned away yesterday.

The advice from the JCVI changed on Monday to reduce the time between a second jab and a booster to three months.

She says "protocols and materials" had to be updated because it was a clinical procedure.

Ms Sturgeon says that process usually takes a week and it has now been "cascaded down" to clinics across Scotland.

The first minister says it was a "glitch" in the system that affected very few people. Those affected can now rebook their appointments.

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Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross begins First Minister's Questions by saying it has been a year since the Covid vaccines were first approved in the UK.

Mr Ross says that this week the guidance was changed so the gap between a second dose and a booster should be cut from six to three months.

He says it has emerged people who are eligible for the vaccine have been turned away.

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BBC Scotland News

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Accelerating the booster vaccination programme has become the UK's main line of defence against the Omicron variant.

There are fears the strain could be more infectious, cause more serious illness and be better at evading vaccines than previous variants.

Every adult in Scotland will now be offered a booster, following the latest guidance from the JCVI - the UK government's vaccine advisors.

More than 1.7 million boosters have been delivered so far and the Scottish government says all eligible over-18s will be offered one by the end of January.

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A new case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is not linked to the other nine detected in Scotland, the Scottish government has said.

The additional case, confirmed on Wednesday, is in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.

Nine cases have been reported in previous days, with MSPs told that they were all linked to a single event.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that it was "almost certain" that more cases would be detected.

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