Mass vaccination centres finally reopen after heavy snow MASS vaccination centres hit by heavy snow have finally reopened their doors. The mass vaccination centres at Colchester United s Jobserve Community Stadium and at Clacton Hospital told patients to stay away on Sunday due to the icy conditions created by Storm Darcy. The stadium site reopened its doors on Friday while Clacton Hospital, which was due to start on February 7, opened for the first time on Thursday. Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT), which is running both sites, said patients who had their vaccinations cancelled over the past few days can rebook their appointment on the NHS national booking website or by calling 119.
SEASIDERS expecting to see their town’s community venue turned into a mass vaccination centre may be waiting a little longer than they first thought, it has been revealed. In December, Frinton and Walton Town Council said the NHS had confirmed it would be hiring the Columbine Centre, in Princes Esplanade, Walton. It was understood the health service would take on the site to administer the PfizerBioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as part of the roll out of the biggest vaccination programme in its history. Although this remains the case, a health source believes the transformation of the centre into a fully functioning hub could still be at least a month away, if not longer.
ELDERLY residents in north Essex are being urged to be patient after bombarding surgeries with calls for the Covid-19 vaccine. It comes as GP practices across Colchester and Tendring have been inundated with calls from patients eager for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has so far given out all the 2,000 doses it had, mostly to vulnerable and high-risk patients in their 80s. They were vaccinated over the past two weeks at temporary clinics set up at the St Helena Hospice’s Tendring Centre in Clacton and Colchester Primary Care Centre. It is understood that across north east Essex and south Suffolk that there are 20 primary care sites and 16 temporary mass vaccination sites being geared up to deliver the vaccine from as early as January 11.