• Wedmore Pharmacy, Wedmore You can also check where your closest drop in centre is by using this website. The first dose of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine offer good levels of protection, but to get maximum protection it’s really important that everyone has both doses. Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine has been brought forward from 12 to eight weeks for the remaining people in cohort 10 (people in their 40s) who have not yet had their second dose. You can use the National Booking Service to rebook or reschedule the existing second dose appointment.
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three pharmacy-led sites. HOSPITALS. There are now two hospital hubs in Somerset delivering the vaccine seven days a week to people aged over 80, frontline health and social care workers and care home residents and their carers.
Musgrove Park Hospital – started vaccinating in 2021;
Yeovil District Hospital – part of the initial wave of 50 hospital hubs, started vaccinating on 9 December 2020. COMMUNITY GP-LED SITES AND CARE HOMES. The GP-led sites are being organised by primary care networks, which are groups of local GP practices in an area working together to deliver this vaccination programme in community locations. There are 13 PCNs, which cover the whole of Somerset, vaccinating patients. They are currently focussing on those who are over 80; frontline health and social care workers as well as care home residents and carers.
Bruton Pharmacy will offer doses to residents in the Community Hall, Silver Street, Bruton. The news comes as Boots pharmacy, in Taunton High Street, started offering the jab today (February 4). “We are really pleased to see the opening of two further vaccination sites within Somerset, to help people to access their vaccinations as easily and quickly as possible, said Dr Alex Murray, clinical director at the NHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group. “We are very grateful to our local pharmacy colleagues who have been working round the clock to put local plans in place to enable more people to be vaccinated in the community in these new locations.