COVID Vaccine Update – 1st March 2021

Posted on March 1st, 2021

This week sees a further 2 days of COVID vaccine clinics at Winslow Health Centre on Wednesday and Thursday.

We are focusing on completing first doses for Group 6 patients and above.  As you can see below, we continue to make good progress.  The following percentages of patients have been vaccinated so far:

• 93% of Group 1 (residential care home patients)
• 95% of Group 2 (80+ and known Health & Social Care Workers)
• 98% of Group 3 (75-79 year olds)
• 93% of Group 4 (70-74 year olds and the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable)
• 91% of Group 5 (65-69 year olds)
• 46% of Group 6 (16-64 year olds with Underlying Health Conditions

We are aware that patients in Group 7 (Age 60-64) are being contacted by the National Booking System to book COVID vaccines at one of the mass hubs or community pharmacies. Please feel free to book an appointment at one of these alternative centres, if this works for you.  We have been asked to only focus on Group 6 and above at the moment.

2nd Dose Clinics 

For patients who attended the vaccine clinics held before Christmas (21st, 22nd, 23rd Dec) at Winslow Health Centre we are looking to administer your 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine over the course of 11th, 12th and 13th of March (delivery allowing).

You will shortly be receiving an invitation to book your appointments via text, but for those people who don’t have a mobile phone, we will be calling your landlines. We would ask that you don’t contact the surgery please.

We have been instructed that patients who had their first vaccines elsewhere will need to have their second dose at the same centre unless there are exceptional circumstances e.g. moved out of area.

We look forward to making further progress for our community in the weeks ahead.