GP surgeries have been urged to focus on adults in at-risk groups during the latest phase of the coronavirus vaccination programme. Vaccination centres have been inviting all adults aged 65 and over as well as those at risk between the ages of 16 and 65 since last week. But now they have been told to put those at risk first and that 65-69-year-olds will shortly receive invitations from a mass vaccination site, such as the Bournemouth International Centre. Over 65s are currently listed as the fifth priority group - cohort 5 - and those at risk as cohort 6. In a letter sent to GPs and Primary Care Networks(PCNs) at the weekend Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England’s Medical Director for Primary Care, said: “PCN sites should focus their efforts on inviting cohort six, which includes a wider group of people at higher clinical risk, including carers and young adults in residential settings.
Deputy charge nurse Katie McIntosh administers the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine jabs to Vivien McKay Clinical Nurse Manager at the Western General Hospital, in Edinburgh, on the first day of the largest immunisation programme in the UK CORONAVIRUS vaccinations are now being offered to over 70s and vulnerable patients at many surgeries in Dorset and Hampshire. The Coastal Medical Partnership said it has been delivering vaccines since December 16 and has updated patients on progress. The partnership includes The Arnewood Surgery, New Milton Health Centre and Barton Webb-Peploe. A spokesman said: We have completed our invites for all 80s, and all 75s to 79s. If you are in either of these categories but have not received your invite please call us on 01425 611788 to get your vaccination booked.
New Milton Health Centre in Spencer Road. Picture: Google Maps/ Street View A MEDICAL partnership of GPs in the New Forest will have administered 4,000 coronavirus vaccination doses by tomorrow. Patients from the surgeries that make up the Coastal Medical Partnership are receiving their first jabs from the New Milton Health Centre in Spencer Road. This includes patients from the Arnewood, Barton, New Milton Health Centre and Webb-Peploe surgeries after the group of practices was named as one of the early adopting sites for vaccinations. A further 1,000-plus vaccinations were also carried out in one day in north Dorset. But the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has refused to reveal how many have been carried out across the county in total.
THE FIRST residents in Basingstoke have received the coronavirus vaccine - including a 99-year-old granddad. The landmark programme started at Hampshire Court Hotel today (Wednesday, December 16), with a steady stream of people arriving the first round of vaccinations. The Chineham-based hotel, closed for overnight stays until February, has been taken over by the NHS as a base to administer the vaccine to avoid disturbing consultations at the hospital. They hope to see 950-970 patients over a two-day period, and then they ll invite them all back again in three weeks when they set it up again for the second dose. Grandfather Kenneth Mellor, 100 in May next year, had his jab.