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Apr 2021
Last Updated: 08/04/2021
Pateley Bridge vaccine centre opens this weekend
The pharmacy-run site can give up to 400 inoculations a day. It will be the fourth vaccination site in the Harrogate district, following the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, the racecourse in Ripon and the former Lidl in Knaresborough.
A coronavirus vaccination centre will open in Pateley Bridge on Saturday.
Pateley Bridge Pharmacy, which will operate at Pateley Bridge and Bewerley Memorial Hall on Park Road, has the capacity to give up to 400 inoculations a day.
A technical glitch means the NHS website booking system is not currently offering the Pateley Bridge site as an option when it invites people to book inoculations.
The pharmacy has assured eligible people they can select the site either by dialling 119 or calling them directly on 01423 711329.
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It will be the fourth vaccination site in the Harrogate district, following the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, the racecourse in Ripon and the former Lidl in Knaresborough.
The pharmacy-led site will use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine because it is easy to store and transport.
Samin Khan, who runs Pateley Bridge Pharmacy, previously told the Stray Ferret:
"We know that there is a need in rural areas. It took a bit of convincing but NHS England has now given us the go ahead.
"The hall is quite large. When we are up and running we will be able to vaccinate around 400 people a day.
"Pateley Bridge is a real community and it has taken a real community effort to organise."
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