GPs need guidance over vaccine storage - YEP letters

FROM: Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP committee chairman, Leeds

By YEP Letters

Published 8th Dec 2020, 11:45 BST

GPs say they need guidance over the storage and transportation of the Covid vaccine. Picture: PA

THE vaccine announcement is a significant step towards overcoming Covid-19 and GPs share in the optimism of the rest of the nation as a future beyond the pandemic comes more clearly into sight.

Practices have responded rapidly in recent weeks to put in place arrangements so that they are ready to deliver vaccinations once they are made available.

With regard to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, we need clarification and guidance from NHS England and the Government on how exactly practices will be involved in this first phase, given the much-publicised practical restraints around storage and transportation.