Salisbury set to get Covid-19 vaccination centre

The NHS has posted an advert for staff to man the facility

Those aged 75 and over, residents in care homes as well as anyone over the age of five who is immunosuppressed are among the cohort who will be offered a further booster
Author: Henrietta CreaseyPublished 21st Dec 2020
Last updated 21st Dec 2020

No details have been revealed about where the new vaccination facility in the city would be based.

The job advert is seeking a number of roles for the centre which would be open 8am to 8pm seven days a week.

Staff are needed until at least May 2021.

Wiltshire already has GP-run vaccination centres in Chippenham, Devizes and Swindon with the over 80s being prioritised.

Patients started being vaccinated at those sites on December 16th, with the NHS stressing other sites would follow suit in the coming weeks.

Gill May, Director of Nursing and Quality, said:

"Never before has there been a vaccination programme as ambitious as this, and it really is humbling to have been able to see everything come together so quickly and efficiently."

86 year old Robert Conway getting his Covid-19 vaccine at The Corn Exchange in Devizes.

Local people are reminded not to attend any of the community vaccination sites, nor their local hospitals or GP practices, without having been invited to do so.

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