New Milton Health Centre in Spencer Road. Picture: Google Maps/ Street View A MEDICAL partnership of GPs in the New Forest will have administered 4,000 coronavirus vaccination doses by tomorrow. Patients from the surgeries that make up the Coastal Medical Partnership are receiving their first jabs from the New Milton Health Centre in Spencer Road. This includes patients from the Arnewood, Barton, New Milton Health Centre and Webb-Peploe surgeries after the group of practices was named as one of the early adopting sites for vaccinations. A further 1,000-plus vaccinations were also carried out in one day in north Dorset. But the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has refused to reveal how many have been carried out across the county in total.
FOLLOWING a week of rising cases and mounting pressure on Salisbury District Hospital, more than 1,000 people in north Dorset have now received the first of their Covid-19 vaccinations. On Saturday, January 9, Sturminster Newton Medical Centre turned into a vaccination clinic, after more than 900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and around 400 doses of the Oxford vaccine were delivered. Around 300 patients in the priority ‘over 80s’ group, from Gillingham Medical Practice, were among the first in the area to be invited to receive their vaccination, including the 80-year-old Andrew Tinsley. The Wyke resident said: “Everything was extremely well organised. I was kept well informed and was very pleased to be able to have my vaccination.