Published:
4:29 PM January 11, 2021
Trinity Park - the home of the Suffolk Show - is the first vaccination hub to get up and running in the county.
- Credit: Keith Mindham
Coronavirus vaccines will be administered across Ipswich, people have been assured - despite attention initially being focussed on three large sites to the east of the town.
Three vaccination hubs have been or are being set up in or just outside Ipswich - at the hospital in Heath Road, Trinity Park and the Gainsborough Sports Centre.
However, they are all relatively close to each other and there had been concerns that some people could be put off by difficult journeys to them
Published:
4:29 PM January 11, 2021
Trinity Park - the home of the Suffolk Show - is the first vaccination hub to get up and running in the county.
- Credit: Keith Mindham
Coronavirus vaccines will be administered across Ipswich, people have been assured - despite attention initially being focussed on three large sites to the east of the town.
Three vaccination hubs have been or are being set up in or just outside Ipswich - at the hospital in Heath Road, Trinity Park and the Gainsborough Sports Centre.
However, they are all relatively close to each other and there had been concerns that some people could be put off by difficult journeys to them
A patient receives a coronavirus vaccine dose at Two Rivers Medical Centre in Ipswich
- Credit: Archant
The full list of coronavirus vaccination centres in Suffolk has been revealed by local NHS teams.
The Suffolk and north east Essex Integrated Care System, responsible for the deployment of the vaccine in all areas of the county except for Waveney, has announced all 13 of the centres set to begin opening from Monday (January 11).
Sites include existing GP surgeries and medical centres, while specialist vaccination centres are also being opened in settings such as village community halls. They join both Ipswich and West Suffolk hospitals in administering the vaccine, further GP surgeries and a proposed site at Gainsborough Sports Centre.
How is it being rolled out in Suffolk?
Nearly 6,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been received by the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System and were administered the week before last.
There are three different types of facilities doing the jabs; primary care network hubs, eg doctors surgeries, hospitals and vaccination centres such as Gainsborough Sport Centre.
The Swan Surgery in Bury, Woolpit Health Centre, Two Rivers Medical Centre and Ivry Street Medical Practice in Ipswich, Saint Helena Hospice in Clacton and Colchester Primary Care Centre are all primary care network hubs.
They have each been given just short of 2,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and began administering them on Tuesday, December 15.