Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
From workplaces and homeless hostels to mosques and community centres, hundreds of extra Covid-19 jabs have been administered at pop-up clinics.
Throughout December, there were 14 targeted pop-up clinics at different settings across the city and county where a total of 232 vaccinations were administered alongside a wider offer of wellbeing support, blood pressure and health checks.
Vaccination teams, working with partners across the Integrated Care System, highlighted key areas and populations and then worked with community leaders and venues to facilitate a pop-up vaccination clinic.
Julia Rosevear, Vaccination Service Locality Manager for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire vaccination programme, who has been leading on the work, said: “We decided to take this innovative approach of taking the vaccination into the community, making it as easy as possible to get protected.
“We collaborated with partners including the county and city Health and Wellbeing Hubs, who are actively connected with communities. They worked with local residents and community groups in advance of the clinics and, as a result, a number of first and second doses as well as boosters have successfully been administered to people who may not have come forward to a vaccination centre otherwise.
“We have taken this targeted approach to make sure as many people as possible are able to have the benefits of a Covid-19 vaccination and I am pleased to see that this has had a positive impact. I am grateful to all our partners and colleagues who have been involved in this work.
“Covid-19 has not gone away, and we are still seeing a high number of cases in the community as well as people being hospitalised. The vaccine is the best possible protection against the illness and also against the possibility of developing long covid. It is important that people do top up their immunity if they are eligible. You can book an appointment via 119 or nhs.uk.”
The NHS is still offering the public a chance to get any vaccination whether it is a first, second or booster dose.
Everyone aged 5 (on or before 31 August 2022) and over can get a 1st and 2nd dose. People aged 16 and over, and some children aged 12 to 15, can also get a booster dose.
Some people, including those aged 50 years or over, those at higher risk or who are pregnant, and frontline health and social care workers, are being offered a seasonal booster (autumn booster).
Book an appointment via 119 or the NHS website. You can find your nearest walk-in venue here.
In the coming weeks and months, there will be more targeted pop-up clinics in areas of low uptake across the city and county.
