Key role for local government vital to vaccination rollout

摘要

As the nation begins to exhale a large audible outpouring of relief, it is beginning to become increasingly clear that the rollout of vaccines will become the prime focus for communities right across the country at the beginning of 2021. Local government should be quite rightly enormously proud of its response in ensuring that communities were not left isolated during the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic, however the emergence of a vaccine will place an additional burden to ensure communities are informed, reassured and encouraged to play their part in the effective roll-out. It cannot be simply left to the NHS, local GPs or ad-hoc private sector organizations to undertake a complex logistical exercise which appears to be currently prioritised by age and health needs.