Name: Rachael Loftus What roles do you perform? Meet & Greet and Observation Marshal Describe your usual shift: I have done three shifts so far, as a Meet & Greet volunteer, an Observation Marshal, and one as a 'floater', helping out where needed. When I first...
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Meet the vaccine volunteers #2: Scott Teasdale
Name: Scott Teasdale What is your role? Carpark Attendant Describe your day as a volunteer: We arrive onsite 30 minutes before the shift starts to ensure all the preparations are done including our own Covid test, signing in and getting our hi-viz vests on. Then I...
Meet the vaccine volunteers #1: Dene Godfrey
As part of our series acknowledging the dedication of local volunteers supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout out, we kick off with Dene Godfrey who tells us about his volunteer experience during the pandemic and his love of music and jigsaws. Name: Dene Godfrey What...
The volunteers behind the vaccines
Since the first Covid-19 vaccine was administered in Ross-on-Wye just before Christmas on 19 December, the roll out has been a huge success with around 1,260 patients from south and west Herefordshire being given the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab in the first...
Local spread relatively low – update from our Primary Care Network 24 January 2021
Coronavirus cases in Herefordshire are at an all time peak, with huge pressure on our local hospitals. Household mixing at Christmas will have played a part in this, and we are now expecting to see a reduction in cases following the subsequent lockdown. It has been...
Surgeries still under pressure – update from our Primary Care Network 5 January 2021
As ever, things are changing rapidly around Covid-19 and our response. The new variant of Covid is more transmissible, which is leading to a significant rise in cases and a lot of pressure on health services, leading to this further lockdown. It is more important than...