Gordon's Alive: Brian Blessed gets COVID-19 vaccine at Camberley surgery

Flash Gordon, Star Wars and Z-Cars star Brian Blessed OBE is among those in Surrey to have already received their coronavirus vaccine.

The 84-year-old and his wife, actress Hildegarde Neil, got their jabs at the Heatherside Surgery in Camberley earlier this month.

On Facebook the NHS Surrey Heath Clinical Commissioning Group said the phrase "Gordon's Alive!" could be heard booming from the surgery.

After getting his vaccine acting legend Blessed said he was “relieved” that he and his wife “are going to live”.

He added: “Having the vaccine for me is a wonderful day of celebration and the NHS is performing heroically.

“The NHS is so wonderful and we really have an organisation which we can be so proud of and that is saving us right now.

“This fight against Covid-19 is an even greater effort than the Second World War and I urge everybody to obey the lockdown rules and together we’ll come through this and then hopefully be able to look forward to wonderful things including a lovely summer of happiness and health.”

A vaccination centre has also now opened at the Lakeside International Hotel in Frimley Green.

Dr Mark Pugsley, GP and Senior Partner at Park Road Group Practice and Clinical Director for Surrey Heath Primary Care Network (PCN), said: “More widely, with our initial start at Heatherside Surgery and now, our first week at the much larger Lakeside hub - where we can deliver a much greater scale of vaccines - overall the vaccine roll out has been going very well so far. There has been a great response from patients who have all been really grateful.

“We’ve almost completed vaccinating our priority cohort of people aged 80 and over and we’ve been successfully progressing vaccinating our front-line workers too, with many primary care and partner staff having now also received their first vaccine.”

We are being reminded not to contact the NHS to seek a vaccine, they will contact you.