Mass Covid-19 vaccination site opens in Surrey today
It is one of seven across the country
Seven mass coronavirus vaccination centres are opening across England today - including here in Surrey.
Over-80s and healthcare workers who live up to a 45 minute drive away will be the first to be invited to book an appointment at the site at Epsom Downs racecourse.
Bookings need to be made through the national booking service online or over the phone.
The NHS says people should wait until they are invited - and not to call their GP but to use the booking line.
If an appointment has already been offered by their GP, people can choose which appointment suits them best.
The Epsom Downs vaccination centre is an additional option - people can choose to have the jabs closer to home in the coming weeks.
In total, across all seven centres, letters are being sent out to more than 600,000 people.
The centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of jabs each week - and the large-scale sites will be followed by dozens more.
Hundreds more GP-led and hospital services are also due to open this week along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites.
The new services will also be the first to deploy trained volunteers from both St John Ambulance and the NHS Volunteer Responder scheme alongside NHS staff.
More than 80,000 of these volunteers have completed the training needed to administer vaccines so far.
Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS's national medical director, said: "Increasing supplies means the NHS can open even more vaccination services and protect even more people this week.
"While my NHS colleagues are working hard to ensure we can offer vaccines to all of those who would benefit most over the next month, at the same time as providing care for everyone who needs it, we need the public to help us.
"Please don't contact the NHS to seek a vaccine, we will contact you. When we do contact you, please attend your booked appointments. And whether you have had a vaccine or not, please continue to follow all the guidance to control the virus and save lives - that means staying at home as much as you can, and following the 'hands, face, space' guidance when you can't."
The other six Vaccination Centres opening this week are:
Excel Centre in London (London)
Ashton Gate in Bristol (South West)
Millennium Point in Birmingham (Midlands)
Robertson House in Stevenage (East of England)
Etihad Tennis Club in Manchester (North West)
The Centre for Life in Newcastle upon Tyne (North East and Yorkshire)