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Mar 2021
Some North Yorkshire GPs have vaccinated all top-priority patients and are using spare doses on under-50s, a chief nurse has said.
Sue Peckitt, chief nursing officer at NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, said the county’s vaccination programme was going “exceptionally well”.
She added some surgeries had reached all eligible patients in the top nine priority groups two weeks earlier than expected.
Ms Peckitt added although bookings for all other adults aged under 50 were not yet open, some would soon be called up for last minute appointments using doses that would otherwise go to waste.
Speaking at a meeting of the North Yorkshire Outbreak Management Advisory Board today, she said:
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