Speaking in a Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce webinar, specialist registrar Rebecca Pickup said: At the moment we have thr nine priority groups, they re set nationally by Government and not locally by Government. They are based on reducing deaths, mortality, the people who are likely to have the worst impact of Covid. She said uptake had been fantastic in Herefordshire and Worcestershire so far, adding: We have five local vaccination centres, one in Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury, Leominster and two in Hereford. There s lots of vaccination centres to go to, and there s a regional centre planned. That s for the Three Counties in Malvern, but that hasn t come online yet. That s expected to come online within the next month, or something like that.
ANOTHER vaccine centre has joined the fight against coronavirus in Herefordshire. Two new vaccination centre, based at Elgar House in Hereford s Holmer Road will begin vaccinating frontline health and social care workers as well as the most vulnerable patient groups this week. Wye Valley NHS Trust, who run Hereford County Hospital and community services across Herefordshire, will manage the site at Elgar House which opens on February 2. Another centre is also opening this week over the border at Worcester s St Peter s Baptist Church. David McDowell, operations manager for the site at St Peter’s Baptist Church, said patients would be invited for vaccination at the two centres based on the JCVI priority list, targeting the most vulnerable patients first, while GP-led teams will also be continuing to invite patients to attend local vaccination sites, so patients who are unable to get to St Peter’s can wait to be called forward by their GP.
Shrub Hill work is the latest promise to transform Worcester area in much need of a facelift
WORK: (clockwise from top right) artist’s impressions for the latest Shrub Hill work, Isaac Maddox House, an artist’s impression of the Sherriff Street and Elgar House NEW multi-million-pound plans to transform Shrub Hill are the latest in a long line of much-needed regeneration projects for a part of the city in desperate need of a makeover. Worcester City Council revealed its £28 million bid for government money earlier this week and includes a long-awaited overhaul of the city’s Shrub Hill area with the First Bus Depot site in Padmore Street near Worcester Shrub Hill station top of the list for improvements.