We ve had local authorities get in touch offering the support of staff members who are not working and have had retired healthcare workers also offer their services, alongside full-time NHS staff offering up their weekends. My background is in nursing and I will help deliver the vaccine in my own time. It is great to see people uniting to help deliver this vaccine together. We would welcome anyone who wants to get involved and help – our doors are open.
The vaccine is also being administered at West Suffolk Hospital
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Mrs Llewelyn said people from all working backgrounds are able to put their names forward, with the positions currently open including healthcare assistants, admin support and stewards.
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.
Vaccines are set to arrive at doctors surgeries in the new year
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Doctors surgeries in Suffolk and north Essex are set to resume the Covid vaccination programme next week - but health bosses have issued a plea for patience ahead of the next phase of the rollout.
Several surgeries across the region began administering their first jabs from the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on December 15 before the scheme was paused for the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for Suffolk and north Essex, which have been overseeing the rollout, have confirmed no more doses will be administered in the region before the end of the year.