There are two vaccination centres in Salisbury, the one in the Cathedral is organised and run by the South Salisbury group of GP practices, with free parking in the Cathedral precinct for those visiting.
The second is in the City Hall, some 500 yards away and is run by the NHS. It deals with a much wider radius with patients from North Salisbury. They are presently vaccinating 400 people a day, but will ramp up to 900 a day by the end of Feb.
I was chatting to one of the security guards, asked him why he and the other 3 were needed.
His answer was that in Salisbury they are probably not needed, but in some parts of the country there have been attempts to steal the AZ vaccine to export it to other parts of the world, organised crime are behind the thefts.
There are also issues with Anti Vaxxer protesters trying to block entry to the centers.
We’ve been volunteering at a vaccination centre in Luton and there’s no security guards and there have been no problems at all. Everybody coming in has been courteous and grateful for the vaccine. We have a very large Asian population in Luton and from what I have seen uptake of the vaccine in this population is high.
