Mass vaccination centres finally reopen after heavy snow MASS vaccination centres hit by heavy snow have finally reopened their doors. The mass vaccination centres at Colchester United s Jobserve Community Stadium and at Clacton Hospital told patients to stay away on Sunday due to the icy conditions created by Storm Darcy. The stadium site reopened its doors on Friday while Clacton Hospital, which was due to start on February 7, opened for the first time on Thursday. Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT), which is running both sites, said patients who had their vaccinations cancelled over the past few days can rebook their appointment on the NHS national booking website or by calling 119.
Letter: We urgently need a mass vaccination centre here by the coast Tendring has been recently listed as being in the top ten highest Covid outbreaks in the country. Tendring has a population of about 145,000 of which about 30 per cent are 65+. About 32,500 of the population are 70+, and about 11,500 of these are 80+. The NHS Essex Partnership University trust is handling the vaccination programme for north-east Essex. So far vaccinations for north-east Essex only appear to have been carried out at Colchester hospital (4,000 in December), Colchester Primary Care (1,000 in December) and Tendring St Helena Hospice (1,000 in December). North East Essex is scheduled to have one more vaccination centre opening at the Fryatt Hospital, Harwich, this week.
ELDERLY residents in north Essex are being urged to be patient after bombarding surgeries with calls for the Covid-19 vaccine. It comes as GP practices across Colchester and Tendring have been inundated with calls from patients eager for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has so far given out all the 2,000 doses it had, mostly to vulnerable and high-risk patients in their 80s. They were vaccinated over the past two weeks at temporary clinics set up at the St Helena Hospice’s Tendring Centre in Clacton and Colchester Primary Care Centre. It is understood that across north east Essex and south Suffolk that there are 20 primary care sites and 16 temporary mass vaccination sites being geared up to deliver the vaccine from as early as January 11.