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Selby Summit Indoor Adventure Centre has bene turned into a Covid-19 vaccination centre. Hundreds of patients have received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at a new vaccination centre for Selby. Summit Indoor Adventure Centre which has been closed since March due to coronavirus restrictions has been converted into a vaccination hub. Run by Selby Town Primary Care Network to serve a population of nearly 50,000 people, it opened to its first patients last Friday. About 1,800 people in the over-70s age group received a dose of the vaccine across two clinics held at the newly-converted children s adventure centre on Friday and Saturday.
Those who have already had their jab have been expressing their gratitude. For the past month, Posterngate Surgery in Selby and Tadcaster Health Centre, next to Tadcaster Medical Centre, have been hosting vaccination hubs to serve patients registered with seven district GP practices. Both local NHS staff and members of the public have been giving an insight into the process, with thousands of people across the district having received their first dose of the vaccine. Front-line NHS staff have also been getting vaccinated. Staff have been vaccinating members of priority groups, starting with the over-80s, and going into care homes to immunise residents and workers.
Joyce Hayton was among the first to get the vaccine PEOPLE living in Selby district have started to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Posterngate Surgery and Tadcaster Health Centre will both be acting as a ‘primary care hubs’ on behalf of the Selby Town and Tadcaster and Rural Selby Primary Care Networks (PCNs). Eligible patients currently aged over 84 in the area who are most at risk from serious harm of COVID-19 have started to receive the much awaited vaccine. The priority groups are in line with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in order to protect the most vulnerable.