Vaccination news 4th February 2021
Local Message from Chichester Alliance of Medical Practices (ChAMP)
Chichester Alliance of Medical Practices (ChAMP) have now vaccinated 13.6% of the local population which compares well with the UK national average of 13.4%. This means that 80.8% of ChAMP patients aged over 80 years have been vaccinated and we have also reached 20.0% of ChAMP patients aged 75-79 years. We have also vaccinated all residents in our nursing and care homes. We will do all we can to meet the government’s ambition of vaccinating cohorts 1-4 before Feb. 15th, although this will be quite a challenge given the demographics of our community.
The bookings team are currently calling patients in the 3rd and 4th cohorts (Patients over 70 years old and clinically, extremely vulnerable individuals over 16 years old), but they are also still trying to reach the small number over 80s who have not yet been vaccinated. Please do ask your relatives and neighbours if you think they may be in this group. If so, they should contact their GP surgery and a member of staff there will try to arrange an appointment or a home visit if the person is housebound. You can make this call on their behalf if they have difficulty using the phone.
Julie Fullick (07590 060 234) is still kindly coordinating the wonderful driver volunteers if transport to the centres is a problem for these elderly residents.
Subject to delivery, the next vaccination clinics are as follows:
3 – 5 Feb Selsey Centre
5 – 6 Feb Tangmere Village Centre