It s the future of healthcare : The Hartlepool team who are revolutionising patient care
It s expected that the new system will reduce demand on hospital services including pressure on the urgent and emergency care centres
The Home First team at the University Hospital of Hartlepoo
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Hospitals, two pharmacies and 13 GP sites are offering jabs across the Tees Valley at the moment. But Middlesbrough councillors have heard how a large-scale jab hub – like those in Newcastle and Washington – will come to Teesside soon. Andrew Rowlands, from the Tees Valley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), told Tuesday’s health scrutiny panel how a mass vaccination centre would come to the area “in the near future”. He later added dates and times for the new hub had not been confirmed yet. When panellists pressed on where the site might be, South Tees Public Health director Mark Adams said the Riverside Stadium had been under consideration as a mass vaccine site for “some time in March”.
New covid-19 vaccine hub for east Cleveland shelved as new jabs meet demand
Concerns had been raised over the distance some isolated residents may have to travel but health chiefs says vaccines can be delivered by the existing GP network
15:28, 17 FEB 2021
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PLANS for a potential new covid-19 vaccination ‘hub’ in east Cleveland have been shelved as there is no longer the demand for it. Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP Simon Clarke and Councillor Mary Lanigan, leader of Redcar and Cleveland Council, had been in talks with health officials after concerns about the distance residents in the furthermost reaches of the borough were having to travel to receive jabs. But sufficient capacity has been provided through individual GP surgeries to the local population, including those in care homes and the housebound, to deem such a move unnecessary. In the early stages of the vaccine roll-out Guisborough’s The Garth surgery was the main location for vaccination appointments with Cllr Lanigan stating it was unrealistic for elderly and vulnerable people in outlying towns and villages to travel there in the worst of the winter weather.