Hundreds get jabs as two GP sites go live
Hundreds of residents received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Selsey and Tangmere over the weekend.
Staff at Tangmere Hall, which opened as a vaccination clinic on Friday, and the Selsey Centre, which opened on Saturday, adminstered jabs to more than 1,500 over four days.
The sites will vaccinate another 1,500 people this week, a spokesperson for the Sussex Covid-19 Vaccination Programme confirmed.
Dr Hannah Davies, medical director for NHS West Sussex CCG, said: “It is fantastic to see that these two further GP led vaccination services are now live for people in the Chichester district.”
The sites at Tangmere Hall and Selsey Centre are for patients at: Cathedral Medical Group, Langley House Surgery, Lavant Road Surgery, Parklands Surgery,
Selsey Medical Practice, Southbourne Surgery, Tangmere Medical Centre and Witterings Medical Centre.
People will be contacted by the NHS when it is their turn to receive the vaccine and are asked to not contact their GP to ask for it – you will be contacted by the NHS as soon as an appointment is available, the spokesman said.
Travelling to get a vaccine during lockdown is allowed, including receiving a lift from someone or using community transport providers.
Riverbank Medical Centre in Midhurst began vaccinating patients from both Midhurst and Petworth yesterday, and aims to have all patients over the age of 80 vaccinated by the end of this week.
The spokesman said this was ‘excellent progress’.
Vaccinations also started in Pulborough for those in the north of the district earlier this month.