Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire opens as mass vaccination centre

The site in Malvern will vaccinate around 2,500 people every day

Author: Isabel KimbreyPublished 2nd Mar 2021
Last updated 2nd Mar 2021

The Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire has opened as a mass vaccination centre.

From today, people in the top priority groups and the most clinically vulnerable will be invited to receive their coronavirus jabs.

Around 2,500 people are expected to be vaccinated here each day and is the fourth centre to be set up across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

People will be welcomed onto the site and directed to one of three pods. Each pod has six bays where they will receive their vaccines from specially trained nurses and volunteers.

Dr Gemma Moore, GP and Clinical Director for SW Healthcare, said:

“This vaccination centre will further increase our local capacity to deliver Covid-19 vaccines, building upon the success of our GP-led teams and those at the other centres in delivering this programme so quickly across the two counties.

“These have been instrumental in helping us to introduce the vaccine in Herefordshire and Worcestershire so far, and we look forward to continuing to drive this programme forward.

“GP-led teams will also be continuing to invite patients to attend local vaccination sites, so those patients who are unable to get to the larger centres can still wait to be called forward by their GP.”

It's another significant milestone in the roll out of the vaccination programme across Herefordshire and Worcestershire

In January, the Artrix Theatre in Bromsgrove opened as a mass vaccination centre with St Peter’s Baptist Church in Worcester and Elgar House following suit in Hereford opening last month too.

The Herefordshire and Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group are asking people to only arrive at the Three Counties Showground unless they have a booked appointment.

Here's what to expect if you're heading to the Three Counties Showground to receive your vaccine:

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