GWH set up ready for Covid-19 vaccine roll-out to begin next week

Next week will see the coronavirus vaccine start to be delivered at 53 ‘hospital hubs’ accross the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed.

Now that the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine has been approved for clinical use by regulators first people could be set to receive the vaccine from as early as Monday.

Confirming the inclusion of the Great Western Hospital he said: “50 hospitals across the country are already set up and waiting to receive the vaccine as soon as it’s approved, so that can now happen.

“Also vaccination centres, which will be big centres where people can go to get vaccinated. They are being set up now.

“There will also be a community rollout, including GPs and pharmacists.

“Now, of course, because of the -70C storage conditions of this vaccine, they will be able to support this rollout where they have those facilities.

“But they’ll also be there should the AstraZeneca vaccine be approved because that doesn’t have these cold storage requirements and so is operationally easier to roll out.”

These are the first hospitals to receive the vaccine

1. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
2. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
3. Cambridge University Hospitals
4. Chesterfield Royal Hospital
5. Countess of Chester Hospital
6. Croydon University Hospital
7. Dartford and Gravesham Hospitals
8. Dorset County Hospitals
9. East and North Hertfordshire Hospitals
10. East Kent Hospitals
11. East Suffolk and North Essex Hospitals
12. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
13. Gloucestershire Hospitals
14. Great Western Hospitals
15. Guys & St Thomas NHS Trust
16. James Paget University Hospitals
17. Kings College Hospital
18. Princess Royal University Hospital, Kings
19. Lancashire Teaching Hospital
20. Leeds Teaching Hospital
21. Leicester Partnership NHS Trust
22. Liverpool University Hospitals
23. Medway NHS Foundation Trust
24. Mid and South Essex Hospitals
25. Milton Keynes University Hospital
26. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
27. Northampton General Hospital
28. North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
29. North West Anglia Foundation Trust
30. Nottingham University Hospitals
31. Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
32. Portsmouth Hospital University
33. Royal Cornwall Hospitals
34. Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
35. Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
36. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
37. Sherwood Forest Hospitals
38. Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust
39. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
40. St George’s University Hospitals
41. The Newcastle Upon Type Hospitals
42. University College Hospitals
43. University Hospitals Birmingham
44. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
45. University Hospitals Derby Burton
46. University Hospitals of North Midlands
47. University Hospitals Plymouth
48. United Lincolnshire Hospitals
49. Walsall Healthcare
50. West Hertfordshire Hospitals
51. Wirral University Teaching Hospital
52. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals
53. Yeovil District Hospital