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Ryde And Shanklin Health Centres To Begin Offering Coronavirus Vaccination

Health centres in Ryde and Shanklin will be able to start vaccinating people against coronavirus in the next few days.

The Westridge Centre in Ryde and The Bay Medical Practice in Shanklin will start to offer the vaccine, joining those in Freshwater and Newport already doing so.

Alison Smith, managing director of NHS Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group, said:

“It has been great that we have been able to get the vast majority of our GP-led sites up and running so quickly. Clinics are going really well with lots of our patients and staff saying how smoothly things
have run.

“We’d like to thank everyone for bearing with us as we know how important the vaccine is to many people. I would ask people to please continue to be patient. The NHS will contact you when it is your turn to be offered a vaccine with information about how to do this.

“Whilst the vaccine rollout is really good news, we know that the virus is still very much with us so we all must do everything we can to protect ourselves and others.”

The NHS will contact people in the priority groups when it is their turn to receive the vaccine. People should not contact their surgeries, the vaccination service is available strictly by invitation only.

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