It comes as the Government prepares to unveil its vaccine strategy with seven new mass vaccine centres. It will also reveal a major new testing programme aimed at people who are carrying the disease but do not have symptoms.
Around 500,000 letters are to be sent out this week to invite people aged over 80 to have their vaccine in centres within 30-45 minutes drive of their home.
This follows the first 130,000 letters being delivered over the weekend.
Appointments can be booked at the centres – including London’s Nightingale Hospital and the Etihad Stadium in Manchester – over the phone or online.
The Government is preparing to unveil its vaccine strategy with seven new mass vaccine centres (Image: Getty )
Elderly patients filmed queuing in freezing cold outside clinic to get coronavirus jabs
Paul Demetrious said his parents left without taking a vaccine but the local clinical commissioning group said they have since doubled the vaccinators to reduce the waiting time
10:03, 10 JAN 2021
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Ms Demetrious told PA: “Their own GP has been in contact to make sure they are okay, and is arranging something else.
“I must say he has been a rock throughout many years of knowing my parents, and this is no reflection on him or that practice.
“I’m hopeful now they will be able to get the vaccine soon in a safe environment and not encounter the same as yesterday.”
Commenting on the video, Lewisham CCG said: “We’re sorry your parents faced this situation.
“This was the first vaccination day for the service, lessons have been learned. Vaccinators doubled to reduce waiting time; patients asked to arrive five minutes before appointment.