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The Midland hospital trusts that will be used as the basis for the massive coronavirus vaccination campaign have been revealed.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which includes Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Selly Oak, Heartlands in Bordesley Green, Good Hope in Sutton Coldfield and Solihull, will participate.
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Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, responsible for Walsall Manor, is on the list as is Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, responsible for Worcestershire Royal in Worcester and The Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
Vaccines will be administered in three settings: first at NHS Trusts, with plans also for large-scale vaccination bulls and primary / community care injections administered in settings such as GP surgeries and pharmacies.
Emily Lawson, responsible for the deployment of the Covid-19 vaccine for NHS England and NHS Improvement, said in a letter last month: “Different vaccines are likely to be better suited to different settings because vaccines are likely to have different storage requirements. , reconstitution and administration. “
The first priority group for vaccination will be the elderly in nursing homes and their carers. All trusts were asked to have a plan to vaccinate their workforce, and frontline NHS workers were among the first to be vaccinated.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock described the announcement as a “monumental step” in the fight against Covid-19, with the first batch of 800,000 Pfizer vaccines planned imminently, enough for 400,000 people to be vaccinated.
The government has ordered a total of 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The full list of vaccination centers in England is:
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Brighton and Sussex Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Countess of the Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Croydon University Hospital NHS Trust
Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust
Dorset County Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (Colchester Hospital)
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Guys & St Thomas NHS Trust
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Kings College Hospital – Princess Royal University Hospital
Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Leicester NHS Trust Association
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Mid and South Essex Hospital Trust
Milton Keynes University Hospital
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
North West Anglia Foundation Trust
University of Nottingham Hospitals NHS Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Portsmouth Hospital University Trust
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Foundation
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
St George’s University Hospitals NHS FT
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Trust
Birmingham University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital
Derby Burton NHS FT University Hospitals
North Midlands University Hospital NHS Trust
Plymouth NHS Trust University Hospitals
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Wirral University Hospital
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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