Until the end of January, the payment for ‘standard’ vaccine delivery will increase to £15 per jab, an additional £5 per jab will be offered on Sundays and bank holidays to ‘increase capacity’ and vaccinations delivered to the housebound will be eligible for a £30 ‘premium’.
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We’re looking at how we can help them to do even more jabs by cutting other burdens on them to free up clinicians’ time.’ ‘Our hardworking GPs, community pharmacists and their primary care colleagues have delivered the lion’s share of the vaccinations so far. ‘To make this happen, we will need to expand vaccination capacity right across the NHS.
She added: ‘The NHS Covid vaccination programme was already in its most complex phase and staff are now working at breakneck speed to respond to this – the biggest change in eligibility since the programme was launched. Ms Pritchard confirmed that it is NHS England’s ‘intention to ensure that everyone eligible for a booster is given the chance to book one before the end of January’. The Prime Minister said: ‘The target that we have set ourselves is to offer a booster to everyone eligible by the end of January – and as with the first jabs, we’ll be working through people by age group going down in five-year bands.’ Ms Pritchard also said CQC had agreed to continue to pause GP practice inspections, and that they were also looking at ‘cutting other burdens’ for GPs. Speaking at the same news conference, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said the payment per vaccination would increase to £15 Mon-Saturday and £20 on Sundays and bank holidays so that GPs would be ‘properly rewarded for their efforts’.Īnd she said they are looking at whether the 15-minute post-vaccination observation period can be scrapped to speed up vaccinations. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a target for the NHS to give booster Covid jabs to all over-18s within two months.
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