GP surgeries have been urged to focus on adults in at-risk groups during the latest phase of the coronavirus vaccination programme. Vaccination centres have been inviting all adults aged 65 and over as well as those at risk between the ages of 16 and 65 since last week. But now they have been told to put those at risk first and that 65-69-year-olds will shortly receive invitations from a mass vaccination site, such as the Bournemouth International Centre. Over 65s are currently listed as the fifth priority group - cohort 5 - and those at risk as cohort 6. In a letter sent to GPs and Primary Care Networks(PCNs) at the weekend Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England’s Medical Director for Primary Care, said: “PCN sites should focus their efforts on inviting cohort six, which includes a wider group of people at higher clinical risk, including carers and young adults in residential settings.
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.