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With the recent winter weather proving challenging, it has meant that volunteers have had to work through the cold, rain and icy conditions, ensuring they follow social distancing guidelines as well as safely helping the most vulnerable in the community who arrive for their vaccinations. Volunteer support services co-ordinator Richard Williams is responsible for pulling together the complex rotas which have been taking place since last month. He said: “I have a pool of over 75 active volunteers and ensure that all of them take part in one or more shifts. “My scheduling allows for around 25 hours per vaccine rollout and there are three volunteer support teams, each having two volunteers per shift, plus an onsite co-ordinator who covers all teams for rest periods and comfort breaks.”
Dr Teshk Nakshbandi from Kingstone Surgery vaccinating local resident Leonard Barwick-Clarke on Saturday morning MORE than 1,000 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 in Herefordshire over the weekend. GPs and nurses from six primary care networks, supported by an organised team of local volunteers, started the first Covid-19 vaccination programme in Ross-on-Wye on Saturday morning, December 19. Clinicians from local surgeries including Alton Street, Pendeen, Fownhope, Much Birch, Golden Valley and Kingstone, worked tirelessly to deliver the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to a total of 359 people on the first day. And by Monday night (December 21) more than 1,000 people were inoculated. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines only have a short shelf-life once delivered to their destinations, so the clinicians had just three days to use all the vials.