A COVID-19 vaccination centre will be closing its doors on Friday (July 16) after administering nearly 100,000 jabs.
The clinic at the Derriford Centre for Health and Wellbeing (DCHW) has vaccinated both hospital staff, other health and social care workers and the public.
Supporting the vaccinators and volunteers since the Hub opened in December have been the specialist teams from across University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and Livewell Southwest.
“Not one of us could deliver such a valuable service without the support of one another,” said Nurse Associate Educator, Dan Fowell.
“I feel privileged to be in a position to offer my services to help protect the general public and colleagues that I have worked with. This will remain one of the greatest experiences of my career for the rest of my life.”
COVID-19 Vaccinator, Janet Benjafield said: “It has been an absolute privilege to work alongside all these amazing professionals and volunteers who hit the ground running to undertake this mammoth task.
“The public have been absolutely fantastic; I don’t think I’ll ever be thanked as much ever again as I have in any of my shifts here. Everyone has been so grateful for what we have been doing, showing basic human nature at its best, with adverse circumstances bringing out the best in people. It’s been an absolute privilege.”
All activity will now transfer to the Home Park Mass Vaccination site. There will be no reduction in the capability and capacity for the population of Plymouth and the surrounding area in terms of the vaccinations being offered; currently these will be Pfizer BionTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
Work has been undertaken to notify individuals whose appointments are currently booked from 17 July onward to advise that these have now been moved to the Home Park site.