Superdrug set to roll out coronavirus vaccines across UK
Boots will be offering coronavirus vaccines from three of its stores from next week – stores based in Halifax, Huddersfield and Gloucester. The retailer has been working with the local clinical cominission groups (CCGs) to help out with the govenrment’s vaccination rollout. A Boots UK Spokesperson said: “Boots has extensive knowledge and experience of vaccination programmes (having completed over a million flu vaccinations this year, for example) and we have developed a model for COVID-19 vaccination that is aligned with our exceptional safety, clinical and operational standards.
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“We stand ready to do much more and our national network of pharmacy expertise is prepped to support the NHS and the government to accelerate the rollout of the vaccine.”
Superdrug has also confirmed it’s supporting the NHS with the vaccination roll out.
The store will initially have five key locations – Guildford, Leeds, Manchester, Basingstoke and Bristol.
Michael Henry, Superdrug’s Healthcare Director commented: “We are the only high street retailer with a team of highly qualified nurses who, together with our pharmacists, have decades of experience of delivering mass vaccination services.
“Over the last nine months we have been working closely with the NHS to support its Covid 19 efforts. This has included our nurses volunteering in hospitals, the wider community and blood transfusion centres. We are now supporting the rollout of its critical vaccination programme to help people most at risk from coronavirus.”
The order in which people will be offered the vaccine is based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
As this is not a private service, patients will be contacted by the NHS when they are eligible for their vaccination.
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