COVID vaccinations due to take place at one North Yorkshire hub are having to be cancelled at short notice because of the weather. A spokesman for NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group has said there will be changes this morning (February 2) to the Covid-19 jab programme in Harrogate and Ripon. He said: Heavy snow is forecast for this morning and in the interests of patient safety, appointments due to take place at the Yorkshire Event Centre at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, and at Ripon Racecourse between 8am and 12.45pm are being rescheduled. Appointments currently scheduled for tomorrow afternoon will go ahead as planned.
Chief Pharmacist Richard Harrison with the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at Askham Bar park-and-ride in York. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire THE latest figures for Covid-19 patients in York and North Yorkshire hospitals and people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus across the city and county have been revealed. This morning the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum (NYLRF) met to brief the media. During the press conference, Amanda Bloor, NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) accountable officer, confirmed that there are now more than 500 patients with Covid-19 in the North Yorkshire and York hospitals. She said: That s the highest number we ve had since the pandemic started last March.
This morning the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum (NYLRF) met to brief the media. During the press conference, Amanda Bloor, NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) accountable officer, confirmed that there are now more than 500 patients with Covid-19 in the North Yorkshire and York hospitals. She said: That s the highest number we ve had since the pandemic started last March. There are 504 patients with Covid in the North Yorkshire and York hospitals. That s the four sites - Harrogate, York, Scarborough and South Tees. Out of that 504, 61 patients are on intensive care. That number of 504 is an increase from last week of 33.
Chief Pharmacist Richard Harrison with the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at Askham Bar park-and-ride in York. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire. PLANS are afoot to launch a new coronavirus vaccination site in North Yorkshire next month. NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) confirmed it has been working with local partners to develop a vaccination site in Ripon. A spokesperson for the CCG said: This site identified is Ripon racecourse. The plan is that this site will launch in early February subject to confirmation of vaccine supply.
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Chris Pflueger, Nurse practitioner York Medical Group, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the vaccination centre in York Picture: DANNY LAWSON/PA A CORONAVIRUS vaccination centre is to be opened in Ripon after complaints that elderly residents are having to travel miles outside of the area to get the jab. NHS officials have announced the centre will be opened “in the next week or so” at a location to be confirmed. The announcement comes just days after Ripon councillors issued an “urgent” call for a centre to be set up in the city after warning over 80-year-olds were struggling to reach appointments at the nearest sites in Harrogate or York.