This morning's team of Paul, Eddie & John have seen in the launch of the new vaccination system. It was quite a slow morning with the last of the first dose Oxford jabee's. This was intentional as it aloud the new system to be assessed before the arrival of the second wave of Pfizer vaccinees.

John & Eddie manned the post vaccination positions ensuring the vaccinees were directed to either the marquee or the back gate of the church car park.

Paul started of in the sunshine at the back gate of the church which is now being used as the pick up point for patients. It didn't take long for the sun to move around and the church was casting a shadow over him. It was a bit chilly with the breeze.

Last week Cath had spoken to Paul and John about a project she is working on and we thought it might be of interest to some GGer's. The project is Cycling Without Age and basically is about helping the elderly and less mobile members of the community to go on bike rides, albeit with the help of a trained rider (the pilot) and a trishaw. Follow the link for further details.

The flags at the back gate and signs in the marquee reminded us, so we just wanted to include in today's report. I'm not sure about their new poster boy though :-)

Vicki joined us at lunchtime to take on the afternoon shift. Her first vaccination clinic, so good luck to her.

Team Manning (Sue & Eddie) on the doors and temperature check and me on the radio was the order of the afternoon.

We found out that Lauren from the surgery was the best person to share a box of chocolates with as she likes all the horrible ones 😂

Once it got dark Eddie got the power of the massive spotlight torch so we were just telling patients to follow the light out of the church...

360 vaccinations today which is a huge achievement. With the new system of patients booking their own appointments it meant that we had some really busy times and some definitely not busy times. The down time gave everyone a chance to grab lunch, a cuppa, a deep breath before the next wave. At one stage there were 13 people queuing outside! To combat this, the surgery opened a 3rd treatment room with Clinical staff running back and forth to cover all 3 rooms. They soon got the queue down with not too many complaints from anyone waiting. For this afternoon’s clinic, Mel ferried patients from the treatment rooms to exit, Sarah was taking temperatures and Eddie and Tracy were taking patients between the church and surgery back door. Sarah and Mel swapped half way through for a bit of a change and we had the usual banter in all areas with all patients being in good spirits. Although it was very cold outside, the sun did peek out for a while.