2 February 2021
Selhurst Park will become one of London’s biggest vaccination venues, playing a pivotal role in vaccinating eligible local residents alongside health and care staff, following its opening as a COVID-19 vaccination centre today.
NHS staff and volunteers have taken over the Glaziers Lounge in the Main Stand, which has been adapted to deliver the vaccine safely and efficiently while maintaining social distancing.
Vaccinations will only be issued to those who have received their NHS vaccination invite, and the centre will operate by appointment only. People with appointments are asked not to arrive too far in advance of their booked slot to ensure that queues can be kept to a minimum.
Selhurst Park is now hosting a vaccination clinic to help protect the community against Covid-19. Image: jeffwarder. Image detail: Croydon NHS Selhurst Park stadium is now hosting a vaccination centre to help with ongoing efforts to roll Covid-19 vaccinations in the community. The Crystal Palace Football Club (CPFC) stadium has now become one of London s biggest coronavirus vaccine centres after opening its doors to people informed of their offer of the Covid vaccine by the NHS. NHS staff and volunteers, who said the new centre will now play a vital role in the fight against the virus, have taken over the Glaziers Lounge in the Main Stand.
Remote oxygen monitors that attach to one s finger can help check on one of the main symptoms of coronavirus. Image: Pixabay Croydon NHS are giving remote oxygen monitors to certain people who test positive for Covid-19 in the borough to help patients and better manage the immense strain of coronavirus. The NHS group, a part of the South West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said remote oxygen monitors are being given to all those Covid-positive patients who signed up for the scheme and who were at particular risk of developing serious coronavirus symptoms. The initiative is designed to help Covid-positive patients who do not require immediate treatment at hospital but who are still at more serious risk from the virus.
As of Tuesday (January 19) there were 233 Covid-19 patients being treated at the London Road hospital. At a meeting of Croydon Council’s health and wellbeing board on Wednesday, trust chairman Michael Bell said that the number of patients increased dramatically in December. He said: “Those numbers have stabilised over the past day, we are fluctuating between 220 and 250 a day. 20 to 30 new arrivals every day, that is giving us a fairly stable number of patients. “We are anticipating they will stay broadly stable for up to five weeks, we are not expecting a significant drop in inpatients before the middle of February.”