A PATIENT who had his Covid-19 jab at the newly opened mass vaccination site at the Westmorland Shopping Centre in Kendal has said how impressed he was with the experience. Geoff Stead attended the site on its first day of opening on Monday, February 1 to receive his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. He said: I’d like to say how impressed I was by the efficiency evident in everything I saw and experienced. The staff were very friendly, putting people like me, who were a little nervous, entirely at their ease. My heartfelt thanks to everyone for all your hard work and dedication.
WORK is underway to transform a South Lakeland shopping centre into a mass Covid-19 vaccination site. Pictures show the Westmorland Shopping Centre in Kendal being prepared to open as a mass vaccination centre, with shop units displaying the NHS logo and windows boarded up. Jane Scattergood, Covid-19 vaccination director for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System, confirmed a large-scale site would be opening in Kendal in the coming weeks. She said: “As the expansion of the Covid vaccination programme continues to gather pace, we are planning to open a large-scale site in Kendal in the coming weeks. “GPs, nurses, pharmacists, other staff, and volunteers are working hard behind the scenes to get the site ready. As with other vaccination services, people should wait to be invited by the NHS.