NHSE&I: Pharmacies should ‘up pace’ delivering COVID jabs to hit 100m goal by December 8

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) has encouraged community pharmacy teams to step up their vaccination efforts, to help the NHS hit a 100 million COVID-19 doses milestone in the anniversary week of the UK’s first COVID-19 vaccine injection.

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Dr Emily Lawson: “If we're not doing 2.2m boosters a week, then we're not keeping up with demand”

Speaking during an NHSE&I webinar last week (November 18), head of the COVID-19 vaccination programme Emily Lawson hinted at the NHS’s hopes for vaccination sites to have administered 100 million COVID-19 vaccines by December 8 – which marks the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 jab administered.

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