three pharmacy-led sites. HOSPITALS. There are now two hospital hubs in Somerset delivering the vaccine seven days a week to people aged over 80, frontline health and social care workers and care home residents and their carers.
Musgrove Park Hospital – started vaccinating in 2021;
Yeovil District Hospital – part of the initial wave of 50 hospital hubs, started vaccinating on 9 December 2020. COMMUNITY GP-LED SITES AND CARE HOMES. The GP-led sites are being organised by primary care networks, which are groups of local GP practices in an area working together to deliver this vaccination programme in community locations. There are 13 PCNs, which cover the whole of Somerset, vaccinating patients. They are currently focussing on those who are over 80; frontline health and social care workers as well as care home residents and carers.
MORE than 80 staff a council in Somerset have been redeployed to help support the coronavirus vaccination centres. And more of the South Somerset District Council (SSDC) team are expected to get involved in the next few weeks to help make vaccination appointments at weekends or in the evenings. One person who has been making calls to residents and booking them in is Martin Hacker, a specialist in communications, marketing and media at SSDC. He said the first few calls he made were quite emotional . Speaking to people who haven’t been outside their homes for almost a year in some cases, who now will be stepping out to go for their vaccine for the first time – it’s almost like you are helping to potentially prolong that person’s life and bring some normality back for them, he said.