Mr Johnson also made a loose pledge to open up more centres, but NHS chiefs have yet to confirm how many will be created. The Prime Minister only promised to train up thousands of extra volunteer vaccinators to help scale up to 1million jabs every day, which NHS bosses have admitted will be 'incredibly difficult'. In his call to arms, he said: 'It's going to require a Herculean effort.'īut there will be no official appeal for a Dad's Army yet, despite hundreds of retired medics being called upon to help deliver the rollout last winter. They would be involved in managing queues at vaccine centres and transporting vulnerable patients.Īnd Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, sent letters to vaccination volunteers at St John's Ambulance over the weekend asking them to work more shifts. Health Secretary Sajid Javid today insisted cancer care wouldn't be threatened but said 'some' urgent care may have to wait until the New Year.Ī charity working alongside the NHS had already appealed for an extra 25,000 stewards before the PM 's pledge of offering third doses to all eligible adults by the end of 2021.
In his televised 8pm booster jab message last night, Mr Johnson admitted top-up jabs would have to be prioritised over other care, dangling the threat of NHS pivoting back to focusing solely on Covid. The Royal College of GPs said: 'We fully appreciate that any time vaccinating has a cost to other work, and has to be justified.' Meanwhile, the body representing GPs wrote to thousands of doctors urging them to get involved, warning the booster drive has no chance of suppressing the incoming Omicron wave without their help. The Ministry of Defence today announced that 750 soldiers, led by Brigadier Phil Prosser who promised war-time tactics to scale up the vaccine programme last winter, are helping the NHS in England and Scotland to scale up the programme 'at pace'. The Army has been drafted in to help meet Boris Johnson's bold ambition of offering all adults a top-up jab by the end of the year, amid concerns even tougher restrictions may be necessary if the roll-out goes too slowly. Hundreds of soldiers are being deployed to accelerate the UK's Covid booster rollout to hit a million jabs a day, it emerged today as top doctors begged more GPs to get involved to protect the NHS from an Omicron crisis. ***DO YOU WANT TO VOLUNTEER? SIGN UP HERE***īy Emily Craig Health Reporter For Mailonline.
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so where are the GPs? MOD releases plan to help NHS jab a MILLION people a day as union begs GPs to get involved to save the NHS The return of Brigadier Phil Prosser, soldiers giving jabs, and calls for 25,000 volunteers.