Harrogate’s main vaccination centre has moved out of the Yorkshire Event Centre and into the goat shed on the opposite side of the showground.
Those due for a booster or anyone who wants to get their first or second dose should enter the Great Yorkshire Showground site by the Sainsburys entrance off Wetherby Road.
Continue past Fodder and the Harrogate Caravan Park. Signs and volunteers lead to the vaccine centre, which is on the right hand side through the gates. Park under shelter of the sheep shed.
Follow the directions of signs and volunteers.
Appointments are available but people are free to go without one as a walk-in.
The centre will be open on weekends from 8.30am until 5pm and until late on one day only during the week.
Since September the Yorkshire Health Network‘s vaccine centres in Ripon and Harrogate have given out 42,000 booster vaccines.
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There was a national effort to give out as many boosters before Christmas. At its peak, the Harrogate vaccine centre team gave out 1,800 jabs in one day.
According to government figures, more than 80% have had a second dose and 67% have had a third dose in the Harrogate district.
The new vaccine centre is smaller.
With much of the work already done and three other vaccine centres in the district, the Harrogate team is confident it can cope with two vaccinators.
Cath Dixon, the GP clinical lead for Yorkshire Health Network, told the Stray Ferret:
“Over the last couple of days we have been dismantling the equipment we had up at the Yorkshire Event Centre to set up again here on the other side of the showground.
“This is the first day we are open here. Now the Yorkshire Event Centre can use the hall we were in for events and we will be able to stay here until March.
“The current JCVI advice is to only offer three doses of the vaccine. But who knows? Things change all the time and we will be here to help get the Harrogate district vaccinated.”
