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Prof Mike Holmes, who leads York’s vaccination services on the former Askham Bar Park & Ride site, explains in his latest column for The Press…

Housebound pensioner Gill Thompson has had her first Covid jab - thanks to a local charity. Mrs Thompson was taken to the Askham Bar vaccination centre yesterday afternoon by Serina Doran of the Ambulance Wish Foundation in the charity's own ambulance. Serina then brought Mrs Thompson back home to Woodthorpe afterwards. Mrs Thompson, 73, said: "I'm thrilled to bits. Having had it I feel so much safer!" As we reported last week, Mrs Thompson is disabled after contracting polio as a child. She uses a walking frame to get around her home - but needs a wheelchair if she goes out.

A YORK MP is to hold a public meeting to talk about the Covid-19 vaccination programme in York. Labour MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell, made the announcement after she dropped in at the city's Covid-19 vaccine centres to meet volunteers and staff. Ms Maskell, said that, having dealt with a large number of constituent enquiries about the vaccination centre, she decided to visit the Askham Bar site to hear of the journey that they have been on, to ensure that York is vaccinated safely. She said she believes that it is so important that the public can be confident of the process an...

Gill Thompson, 73, is still waiting for her Covid jab A disabled York pensioner has taken health secretary Matt Hancock to task for claiming that all over-70s who want the Covid jab have been offered it. Gill Thompson, who is 73 and disabled after contracting polio as a child, says she wants to have the vaccine because without it she feels vulnerable. But she says she hasn't so far been offered the jab - and even if she was, because she is housebound, she wouldn't be able to get to the mass vaccination site at Askham Bar to have it. “There must be lots of people in my position,” s...

Pharmacist director Richard Harrison gives a patient a Covid jab at the York mass vaccination centre at the former Askham Bar Park &* Ride site. MORE than 1,000 patients a week are set to receive Covid jabs from a new clinic run by pharmacists in a town near York. Citywide Health, York’s independent pharmacy group, has been commissioned by  NHS England to provide a Covid vaccination service directly to the public from its new clinic in Haxby. It will become the first community pharmacy in York and  North Yorkshire to provide the service, which will involve vaccinating over 1,000 ...