Daphne Dye, 89, from Great Clacton, is given the jab ALMOST 1,000 people in one of the country s oldest and most deprived communities are being given the Covid-19 vaccination. The North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group worked with St Helena Hospice to turn its Tendring Centre, in Jackson Road, Clacton, into a vaccination centre in just seven days. Elderly residents in the town were among the first people in the community to be given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Some have been shielding since March and have welcomed the vaccine as it will mean they will be able to see their families sooner. Navy veteran Alan Jones, 89, from Clacton, got the jab at St Helena Hospice s Tendring Centre, alongside his wife Hazel, 83.
A CARETAKER provider has now been awarded a five-year contract to run four formerly troubled GP practices in Clacton and Frinton - covering 24,000 patients. Frinton Road Medical Practice in Holland-on-Sea, Epping Close Surgery in Clacton, Green Elms Medical Centre in Jaywick and Caradoc in Frinton were previously run by Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE). The health care provider’s shortcomings - including patients being forced to wait more than 30 minutes on the phone to book appointments, order prescriptions and get test results - came under scrutiny after NHS bosses forced a change of management at Caradoc Surgery last year. ACE was warned to make improvements at the other three sites, which make up the Clacton Community Practice, but failing significant progress the successful Ranworth Surgery in Clacton, was brought in to run them on a 12-month caretaker contract.