Vaccination specialists will decide in the next few weeks whether a third Covid-19 injection is required for those over 50 years of age.
If the plan is approved, it is expected that all people over 50 years of age or clinically vulnerable UK A booster jab will be provided before Christmas.
NHS officials have made plans to launch a joint coronavirus and flu vaccination campaign in the fall, but it is not clear whether the vaccination needs to be strengthened.
expert Suggest government – The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) – will provide guidance before the program starts on September 6.
The pharmacy will play an important role in the plan to provide a third jab to help improve immunity, as GP surgery will resume normal work as much as possible.
The Telegraph says the Minister of Vaccines Nadim Zahavi Members of Congress have been briefed on these plans, including the goal of providing an average of nearly 2.5 million third doses per week and increasing the role of pharmacies.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health said: “The government is preparing to strengthen the plan. The JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization) has issued interim recommendations on who can give priority to the third possible vaccine from September 2021.
“The enhanced plan will ensure that the millions of people most at risk of Covid-19 receive the first and second doses of vaccines and protection against new variants before winter. The plan will listen to JCVI’s final recommendations.”
The department said it will announce more details “in due course.” It is understood that the ministers are awaiting further results of the Cov-Boost trial to determine which vaccines should be used in the fall plan.
According to JCVI’s recommendations, we hope to see community pharmacies widely involved in providing Covid booster injections and flu injections
Thorrun Govind, Chairman of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said: “pharmacist The NHS played a key role in leading the successful implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination program.
“According to JCVI’s recommendations, we hope to see community pharmacies widely involved in providing Covid booster injections and flu injections.
“The pharmacy has a good track record in providing vaccination programs. Last season, it provided more than 2.7 million influenza vaccinations. There are currently more than 600 sites providing Covid-19 vaccination.”
Dr. Gary Howsam, Vice President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: “General practitioners and our team work very hard to protect as many patients as possible from Covid-19. Vaccination is our way out of this pandemic. Most of the plan has been provided in primary care.
“General practice has a long track record of carrying out vaccination activities. Patients, especially our most vulnerable patients, trust general practitioners and our team to complete their work.
“Together with our pharmacy and other colleagues in the NHS, general practitioners will play a key role in this plan. As our services are already under tremendous labor and workload pressure, not every clinic can participate in the promotion. Because they will focus on other basic care.
“We want to see efforts to ensure that there are a large number of well-trained non-clinical vaccinators working in the general practice, supervised by a small number of primary care clinicians, to help complete this work in the fall.”
Commenting on the prospects of the booster movement, Lis Wallace, The ONE Campaign’s head of publicity in the UK, said: “The real battle to defeat Covid and prevent dangerous new variants is now taking place in countries where millions of people are facing a deadly new wave. Virus protection is much less, so it is shocking that the government chose to give priority to booster vaccines.
“With the decline in infection rates and a successful vaccination program means that nearly three-quarters of British adults are protected, it is vital for the government to see a bigger picture.
“The only guaranteed way to reduce the risk of new variants destroying the progress already made is to get vaccines around the world as soon as possible. If we want to end this pandemic at home and abroad, now is the time to make sure we defeat this virus everywhere. “
NHS England stated in July that the health system should be prepared to provide a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine “as quickly and safely as possible” between September 6 and December 17.
In a letter to senior health leaders, the NHS stated that it expects to obtain the results of multiple clinical trials in the summer, so the plan needs to be “flexibly adjusted as new information emerges.”
In June, JCVI issued new interim guidelines, setting out a prioritized list of who should receive the third injection when the plan needs to be strengthened.
According to the plan, approximately 32 million people are eligible, including those in their 50s, health and nursing staff, those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, and those between 16 and 49 who usually receive free NHS flu vaccines, as well as those who are in regular contact with People with weakened immune function together.
JCVI member Professor Adam Finn told the PM of BBC Radio 4 that any current support plan is “temporary.”
He said: “What we are currently doing is to observe very carefully, because in the current wave there is evidence to see if anyone — people will pay special attention to the first vaccinated people, that is, the medical staff and the very elderly. People-the protection they receive seems to be diminishing to some extent.
“If this starts to become clearer, it will prompt us to suggest that there should be a booster program, but at this point it is still temporary.”
