London s Nightingale hospital is to double up as a mass vaccination hub, providing jabs seven days a week from 8am to 8pm. Work continued last night at the ExCel, Europe s biggest conference centre.
It is part of a mission dubbed Operation Delta Force, Mail on Sunday can reveal
Defence sources say operation - named after elite US Special Forces unit - will involve medics and logistics experts helping to deliver vaccine in harsh winter
Plan could involve 1,500 personnel; it is understood to have been approved by Ministers, with troops beginning training in giving vaccine jabs from this week
Red tape blamed for only 5,000 of the 40,000 retired NHS workers who volunteered to return to fight Covid being given jobs
GP Claire Barker said she did not have the required 21 forms to work despite owning her practice for 30 years
Dr Brian Cooper, 73, one of 47,000 retired medics to sign up to the NHS s call for volunteers in April
They were supposed to be deployed to hospitals to get normal care up and running during Covid crisis
But Dr Cooper claims he was left in lurch for seven months then asked to do contact tracing work