CTM UHB COVID-19 Vaccination Update Christmas Greetings
The first COVID-19 vaccination was given in CTM on the 7th December last year and what a year has followed that! This week we will see a significant milestone when we reach 1 million vaccine doses given in CTM - I don’t believe any of us would have expected that number when we set out.
With Christmas and New Year upon us, it is a time to reflect on what it has taken to ‘get jabs in arms’; it has taken dedicated team work, a desire to continually learn and improve and above all kindness. The public have been patient in queues and generous with praise and gifts. Teams from all areas including, porters, volunteers, drivers, pharmacy, leisure centres, administration and booking, call centres, workforce, nursing, facilities, planning and information have pulled together. They have met every challenge and new announcement thrown at them. In the face of a task never before undertaken, we haven’t always got it right, but we’ve always learnt and improved. That has enabled us to now deliver boosters three times faster than anything we’ve done before, a huge achievement to step up in just 5 days.
We all hope that 2022 will bring a little calm and that together, one jab at a time, we can combat the worst that Omicron or any other variant can throw at us.
Thank you for your continued support of such a vital programme of work – without you we could not have achieved this.
Clare Williams
Deputy Director of Strategy & Partnerships, and CTM COVID-19 Vaccination Senior Responsible Officer