Hospital To Re-Open As Vaccination Centre

The Feilding Palmer Hospital in Lutterworth is to re-open as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.

It will be one of three new vaccine hubs at community hospitals in Leicestershire, in addition to jabs being given at GP surgeries.

Currently people living in and around Lutterworth have to travel to Oadby to get the Covid-19 jab and South Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa had called on the NHS to use the site on Gilmorton Road, which was temporarily closed last year.

Mr Costa told Hfm he is delighted:

It’s understood the vaccination centre at the hospital will open later this month – in the meantime people invited to get the vaccine elsewhere should continue to do so.

County Councillor for Lutterworth, Rosita Page, says work has taken place at the site already, in preparation:

The Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has confirmed centres will also open at Loughborough Hospital and Coalville Community Hospital and there are also calls for St Luke’s Hospital in Market Harborough to be used.

Health campaigner Phil Knowles has suggested it:

The NHS is appealing for registered healthcare professionals to give the vaccines at the new centres, as well as admin staff and volunteers to assist patients.

Each one requires dozens of staff to administer the jabs.

Any registered healthcare professional can play a part after appropriate training – most of which they can do online at home. Retired professionals can join a temporary register up to five years after they have left the permanent register.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting staff on behalf of the local NHS.

Anne Scott, director of nursing, allied health professionals and quality said: “We are looking for staff who are registered healthcare professionals, or could easily re-register. This includes a wide range of professions such as physiotherapists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists as well as nurses and doctors.

“We will be offering full and part-time work over the next few months. You will be very welcome.

“Staff who have already been involved in the programme have said it is hugely rewarding to help deliver vaccines which protect life, and will help the country return to normal.”

We are also looking for administrative staff to welcome patients and to help ensure accurate records are kept for members of the public receiving the vaccination.

In addition, this project is looking for volunteers to help patients at the vaccination sites.

For more details and to apply, please visit: www.leicspart.nhs.uk/supportvaccinations