New vaccination centre opens at site of former TV studios
A NEW Covid-19 vaccine centre is now open in Nottingham.
The new centre opened yesterday at the University of Nottingham King’s Meadows Campus off Lenton Lane, a site previously used as studios by Central Independent Television.
Elsewhere in the city, a vaccine hub has been set up at Cripps Medical Centre, on the university’s University Park campus off the A52 Derby Road.
Vaccines are also being given out at Nottingham’s City Hospital and the Queen’s Medical Centre.
NHS health bosses have asked the public to wait until they have received a letter before contacting the NHS, their GP or local hospital hub to get the vaccine. The letter will have full details of how to make an appointment. They are asking people to not call their GP or turn up at hospital or a doctor’s surgery and stressed the only way to get an appointment and the jab is to follow the instructions in the letter.
There are a number of vaccine hubs which have opened across the city and county’s hospitals and community centres, with more on the way. But they all currently run during the working day as part of the biggest vaccine rollout in country’s history.
Alex Norris, Labour MP for Nottingham North and a shadow health minister, said there are currently no plans for a 24/7 scheme in Nottingham, but he would be pushing the Government to reconsider.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “This is the biggest vaccination programme in UK history and we are working tirelessly with the NHS to protect as many of our most vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible. As the Prime Minister said, we are looking at possible options to deliver vaccines 24/7.
“We are already making more day time appointments available and are looking at a pilot scheme where vaccinations can be offered for extended hours.”