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    May 2021

    Last Updated: 13/05/2021
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    'Let's crack on': Knaresborough and Pateley vaccine sites reopen

    by Connor Creaghan

    | 13 May, 2021
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    The vaccine rollout is ramping up again locally after a supply shortage forced the two centres to stop administering jabs for a few weeks.

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    Two vaccine centres in the Harrogate district are reopening after a month of supply issues slowed the rollout.

    Homecare Pharmacy Services' clinic in the former Lidl car park in Knaresborough will operate on Saturday for the first time since April 17.

    When it re-opens the pharmacy staff will be giving both the Pfizer-Biontech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.

    It will be open five days a week but the owners hope eventually to be open seven days a week.



    Read more:



    • No more first vaccines in Harrogate district until June, leaked letter reveals

    • Harrogate district first covid vaccine doses near 100,000





    Jason Baskind, managing director of Homecare Pharmacy Services, told the Stray Ferret:

    "The last clinic we held was without a doubt the best so far. The team gelled well, there were no queues and we managed to give out 1,219 jabs.
    "It was frustrating that we had to close after that but now we are back and we are ready to go, so let's crack on."


    Pateley Bridge's vaccine centre is also starting to see supplies come through. It opened on Wednesday this week to administer about 400 jabs.

    The site, run by Pateley Bridge Pharmacy, had been in talks with the NHS about using the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, which is more difficult to store.

    However, because the site is small the owners did not want to risk wasting vaccines so it is sticking solely to Oxford-AstraZeneca.

    The outlook has improved compared to last month, when a letter leaked to the Stray Ferret said there would be no more first doses for a while due to shortages.