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Information about the COVID-19 Vaccine (Update: January 11th)

Posted on January 11th, 2021

The Spinney Surgery has now had official notice to start delivering the COVID vaccination programme along with the other Practices in the St Ives Primary Care Network (PCN) – Grove Medical Practice, Riverport Medical Practice, Moat House Surgery and Spinney Surgery. The patients of all four practices will be invited to one central vaccination site in St Ives with the first appointments due shortly for the most vulnerable patients aged 80 and over.

Patients in care homes and those who are housebound will also take priority, in line with NHS England’s plan. Patients in other age groups and also patients who are clinically extremely vulnerable due to their health condition will be invited as soon as we have notification from NHS England of our next vaccine delivery date.

Some patients in the first priority group may have already received a text to their mobile phone with a link to book an appointment, others will be contacted by one of our team by telephone in the next day or two so we can book on their behalf.

If you have received a text and do not have a smart phone, you will not be missed. As more appointments become available you will be contacted.

Please do not ring the surgery as we need to leave our phone lines clear to continue to delivery our regular GP services. We will contact you. Our staff can’t answer any queries you might have about the vaccine, or cancel vaccine bookings.

Patients who are classified as clinically extremely vulnerable include:

Chronic respiratory disease, including chronic obstructive -pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis and severe asthma
Chronic heart disease (and vascular disease)
Chronic kidney disease
Chronic liver disease
Chronic neurological disease including epilepsy
Down’s syndrome
Severe and profound learning disability
Diabetes
Solid organ, bone marrow and stem cell transplant recipients
People with specific cancers
Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment
Asplenia and splenic dysfunction
Morbid obesity
Severe mental illness

These are the priority groups in order, as decided by NHS England:

Residents in care homes for older adults and their carers
80 year olds and over & frontline health and social care workers
75 year olds and over
70 year olds and over & clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
65 year olds and over
16 – 64 year olds with serious underlying health conditions
60 yea olds and over
55 year olds and over
50 year olds and over

Thank you for your patience, we have been keen to start for some time and our team is looking forward to starting the process of vaccinating our patients against this virus. Please check our Latest News section for more updates about the COVID-19 vaccination.