Covid-19 vaccination programme
West Sussex update
04 May 2021

Our vaccination programme continues to make strong progress with more than 1.3million doses now administered.
 
Teams are focused this week on making sure that those who are due their second dose can receive their vaccination, as well as beginning to offer first doses to people in the recently eligible group – those aged 40 and over.
 
Invites are being sent to people aged 40 and over as we work our way down the age groups as quickly as supplies allow.
 
To date, more than 9 out of 10 people aged 50 and over, with a long term health condition or a carer have received their first dose,  and of those aged 70 and over, more than 8 out of ten have now also had their second dose.
 
We are also on track to offer a first dose to all adults by the end of July subject to vaccine supply. 

If you are in the eligible groups and you are yet to have your vaccination, please join the thousands of others locally who are helping to protect themselves and others. You can book your vaccination now by using the online service, by calling 119 or wait to receive an invitation from your GP-led local vaccination service.

The National Booking System both online at nhs.uk/covidvaccine or over the phone by calling 119 only shows services with available appointments. If a vaccination centre or service currently does not have any available appointments it will not show up in the list when you log into the system.
 
Currently there are a limited number of first dose appointments available in Sussex in line with vaccine supply. We have been assured that this is a short-term issue and we encourage eligible people who have been invited to receive their vaccination to keep checking the National Booking System for appointments. 
 
This is only in relation to first dose appointments and second dose vaccination deliveries are continuing across Sussex and we encourage everyone to attend your second dose appointments when it is your turn.

Alliance for Better Care, the GP Federation leading vaccination services in Crawley, Haywards Heath and East Grinstead, has passed the 200,000 vaccination milestone this Bank Holiday weekend.

As well as services in West Sussex, ABC also runs vaccination services in Surrey.

Well done to the whole team - from vaccinators, coordinators, to the many volunteers supporting these services.

An all star line up has joined forces with the NHS to encourage people to come forward and get the lifesaving covid-19 vaccine when they are invited in a new short film.
 
Sir Lenny Henry, Liz Hurley and David Walliams join TV actors Lydia West and Navin Chowdhry to dispel myths around vaccination to boost uptake of the NHS Covid jab. 
 
The film is the second commissioned by Professor Lord Ara Darzi, the leading doctor who is the Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, part of the Imperial REACT COVID Surveillance Study Group and volunteered on Covid wards at the height of the pandemic.
 
The new film also shows stars ‘auditioning’ as they tackle common rumours and misconceptions around the Covid vaccine and encourage everyone to get jabbed when it is their turn.