My neighbour who is a doctor at our local practice said they decided to band together with 3 other surgeries to make sure they had enough staff to cope and give doctors and nurses a break from just continually vaccinating. The system employed by the local health trust assumed 100% take up of the vaccine based on the patient numbers registered at each practice In each of the priority categories. It also assumed Four doses of vaccine per bottle when in fact it is possible to get 5 with care. Take up is less than 100% for all kinds of reasons including not updating deaths! They don’t return vaccine so it has been possible to carry on and move down the priority groups more quickly . As a result I had my first jab 3 weeks ago at the ripe old age of 70.
Credit where it is due , thank you NHS and all the volunteers and the person who took a leap of faith and ordered the vaccine in the first place .
