Health Minister Matt Hancock has set a target for the National Health Service in England that he deserves to be in a position to administer vaccines until December 1, said his main goal was for most of the deployment to take a position next year.
Any distribution of vaccines would require approval from the country’s medical control body, MHRA.
On Wednesday, NHS England Medical Director Stephen Powis showed that gps, pharmacies and large-scale vaccination centers may all be concerned about the vaccine’s deployment, adding that more important points will be given in the coming days.
“There will be national vaccine vaccination centers, which will be giant centers, probably run by a corps of army workers involved, etc. , but the GPs are well placed,” Steve Mowle, a general practitioner and honorary treasurer at the Royal College of General Practitioners, told Reuters.
“The challenge of this task is even greater than the influenza vaccination program. But generalists will play a very central role in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. “
Germany is in the process of identifying industry showrooms and airport terminals as imaginable mass vaccination centres, while Italy plans to build on its existing network of general doctors, but in many countries, the main points of how the population will be vaccinated are scarce.
A spokesman for the UK Department of Health said that experience in logistics, shipping arrangements and other appliances had been implemented, that the amount had been higher and 150 million pounds had been allocated to GPs.
“A lot of plans have been made to make sure our fitness service is able to implement a COVID-19 vaccine,” he said.
“We will publish more main points about our implementation plans in due course. “
‘TALENT’ AND ‘VALIENT’
While there is still a lack of clarity on some of the main points on how doctors should administer vaccines, they have been informed of the general lines.
In the absence of industry names, the NHS uses code names to designate the two candidate vaccines that will be the first available.
The Pfizer and BioNTech candidate vaccine, which uses an mNR platform, is called “Brave Vaccine”, while the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca is called “Vaccine Talent” on the slides of a webinar for fitness professionals delivered through the NHS of England last week that was reviewed through Reuters.
Britain ordered 40 million doses of the Candidate Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which had 95% efficacy in the effects of the latest trials published on Wednesday, and one hundred million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which is expected to publish knowledge of efficacy in the coming days. Weeks.
In the webinar, doctors reported that there would be 975 doses compatible with the Pfizer vaccine box, two doses to be administered 21 days apart, according to the US drug manufacturer’s design specifications.
Clinics may also want to be open on weekends for dosages to be used on time.
“Possible vaccines opposed to COVID-19 might want to be delivered within a safe time frame once they reach a site,” the slide says.
“Then, if necessary, but not otherwise, practices have the ability to deliver vaccines between 8 a. m. and 8 p. m, seven days a week to avoid waste. “
DOUBLE TRACK
The urgency of vaccines being delivered to others temporarily after they have been won is partly due to the non-easy garage needs of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which will need to be maintained at about -75 degrees Celsius.
It can then be stored in the refrigerator for five days, but once diluted, it can be used in a few hours, causing headaches for those who distribute the vaccine, especially in rural areas.
“There are really demanding situations about how it can be used,” said Richard Vautrey, a physician and chairman of the British Medical Association’s Committee of General Physicians.
“It’s different from what we would normally revel in, say, the flu vaccine,” he said, adding that the main points of the “double-track” strategy were being actively discussed.
The beloved Pfizer vaccine garage can be mitigated through dry snow and other transitority cooling solutions, said Anna Blakney, a researcher at Imperial College London.
“Between buying new freezers and having this space, in addition to dry ice shipments, this can accommodate Array. . . all the vaccines we would get,” he said.
Much of the delivery of vaccines will be decided at the local point and precise practices may vary in other parts of England, not to mention Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, where fitness policy is decentralised.
In Nottinghamshire, central England, fitness officials told fitness professionals at a briefing that they planned to be able to start vaccinating frontline staff and others in nursing homes from 9 December, with large-scale COVID vaccination centres. 2 January and more involvement of general doctors since mid-January.
“I don’t think we’re at full capacity as of December 1. Obviously, we’re going to have a phased implementation,” Mowle said.
“But Array . . . where there is will, there is a way, and I think GPs are very willing to interact in that process. “