Just watched Priti Hitler on tv. Interesting to note how many times she emphasised that it was the responsibility of the NHS for the rollout of the vaccine. Is it?
Whose else could it be? 
And that isnāt humorous sarcasm, I canāt think which other body could possibly be put in charge of it.
How are the nhs going to staff the rollout? 14 million vaccinations by feb? Where is the funding? This smells like nhs test and trace. Its not as though the nhs has other shit to deal with at the moment.
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Yes the nhs should have a big part to play in the rollout but i just think the messaging is weird. Set a huge target then label it as the nhs responsibility without showing how it will be delivered.
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When the target is missed whose responsibility will it be?
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I didnāt see the interview, and Iād agree itās a bit fishy if she was pressing the point. But who else would you expect to be doing it? HMRC?
Well yes, obviously itās a political thing designed for PMQs. Iām afraid weāre stuck with that. But the NHS has so much public backing that nobodyās going to seriously hold them specifically to account, at least not without doing more political damage to themselves than to anyone else.
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Maybe its just me being cynical and thinking the worst everytime i see Patelās sinister smirk but weāll see. The fact that we have a vaccines minister whose first action was to re-register his newly formed company as a āmedicalā company on receiving his new post doesnt fill me with confidence. Lets see how much money is promised for the vaccine rollout, how much goes to the nhs, how much ends up in private hands and who delivers value for money.
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Well, yes. What we need is a complete change in the political system to prevent that type of thing happening. Now, if Corbyn had got inā¦
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Yeah but then weād all be in the IRA or gassing jews or eating borscht or something.
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Primary Healthcare services will be the main providers of the vaccine, but quite how GP surgeries will staff, administer and record this is beyond me. They are simply not set up to do it. They have been trying to recruit additional staff to cope, but the process is beset with red tape. You may be an experienced retired practitioner but unless you have your gender awareness training or some other side issue training up to date, the process to get approved is delayed. this may be dispensed with.
Weāve been approached by a couple of surgeries to do some work to reorganise their premises so they can try and administer the best they can, but it is all sketchy stuff.
To my mind, it seems as though they face more logistical problems than anything else. They are very keen to get as many standard flu jabs out of the way as quickly as possible to give them space in their small vaccine stores for when they get the covid jabs, so if anyone gets a text or message to go for a flu jab then they will be seriously helping the covid vaccine effort by actually attending when required.
But the covid jab needs recipients to be assessed for 15 minutes after administration to monitor for reactions. Most practices do not have the space to do this, so i canāt see how they are going to do the numbers required.
As usual, the Government is giving the responsibility to others with no real help, whilst trying to avoid the accountability of failure. It is a hallmark of modern government, but this lot seem to excel in it.
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Maybe its just my brainā¦ but couple of observations, but given they were 99% likely to approve the Az OX vaccineā¦ (published data)ā¦
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Pfizer vaccine - difficult to distribute at at -70C. Therefore why not reserve initial double doses for all healthcare/key workers who and vaccinate at hospitals - include all those in hospital or attending for serious underlying conditions - all those who work in social care settings and care homes to get double dose. Much easier to have hospitals as vaccines hubs for these core workers and patients in treatment
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AZ/Ox vaccine first wave - care homes etc and and OAPs and then primary care hubs but with budget allocation for additional support staff.
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Why did we not train addition staff over summer for vaccination support program given we knew it was coming? Student nurses/student doctors/ army medics etc + volunteers with specific backgrounds etc.
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Politics is always in the way with Government desperate to show action, without planning - anyone could see that trying to distribute a vaccine at -70c in packs of 1000 to care homes in the middle of wherever, was never going to workā¦
Hindsight is sooo 20/20 
(or should that be 20/21 now?)
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I thought those useless training requirements had been removed in the last day or so.
Iām sure there a several cabinet ministers with mates down the pub who could get it sorted for a few hundred million. 
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I certainly hope so. Talking to someone on Monday, whose partner has some responsibility for organising this in a trust, it hadnāt then. It would be good to think it has been by now.
Well the decision at the top was made - the question is how long will it take to percolate its way to the troops.
I suspect its stuck in a committee who are still arguing what task force name to call themselves
Removed today
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