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The current priority groups for Covid Vaccination is as follows:
Phase 1
Cohort 1. Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers.
Cohort 2. All those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers. (please see more detail below)
Cohort 3. All those 75 years of age and over.
Cohort 4. All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals. (please see detail below)
Phase 2
Cohort 5. All those 65 years of age and over.
Cohort 6. All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality. (please see detail below)
Cohort 7. All those 60 years of age and over.
Cohort 8. All those 55 years of age and over.
Cohort 9. All those 50 years of age and over.
It is estimated that taken together, these groups represent around 99% of preventable mortality from COVID-19.
Phase 3
The Government has set out who will be next to receive coronavirus vaccines once all the over-50s and most vulnerable have had their jabs. This will be based on age only and not occupation.
Cohort 10. All those 40-49 years of age
Cohort 11. All those 30-39 years of age
Cohort 12. All those 18-29 years of age
Detail of specific groups in cohorts
Cohort 2: Frontline health and social care workers
JCVI has confirmed more detail about professions that are considered priority for the Covid vaccine in a letter dated 7th January.
Priority One : Care Home workers including porters, cleaners etc
Priority Two:
-Care Workers in community and care agencies.
-Front line health or social care worker
This includes but is not limited to:
• staff working on the vaccination programme
• staff in hospitals, GP practices, community nursing, mental health, urgent and emergency care and community settings including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, dieticians etc
• those working in independent, voluntary and non-standard healthcare settings such as hospices, and community-based mental health or addiction services
• laboratory, pathology and mortuary staff and funeral directors
• those working for a sub-contracted provider of facilities services such as portering or cleaning within healthcare settings
• temporary, locum or ‘bank’ staff, including those working in the COVID-19 vaccination programme, students, trainees and volunteers who are working with patients
• frontline social care workers directly working with vulnerable people who need care and support irrespective of where they work (for example in hospital, people’s own homes, day centres, or supported housing); or who they are employed by (for example local government, NHS, independent sector or third sector). Independent (private) practitioners and independent (private) providers including general practice (including locum staff), community pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, physiotherapists and hospices
Do you work in any of these professions?
YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE COVID VACCINE AS A PRIORITY ONE OR TWO HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE WORKER AND OUR PRACTICE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU!
We need you to ask your employer for a short letter of proof of employment with you name, DOB, brief detail of your job and your employers details and send it by email or post it to us ASAP.
If you are self-employed send us a headed letter with your details so we can make a few checks to confirm your profession.
If your employer has several of our registered patients they can send us ONE letter with a full list of their workers to reduce their admin work.
Please email your letter of proof of employment to portcullis.dutymanager@nhs.net or post it to the practice for the attention of Rachel Shields.
References
https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2021/01/C1008-Operational-Guidance-Vaccination-of-Frontline-Health-Social-Care-Workers-7-January-2021.pdf
Cohort 4: Clinically vulnerable people (shielding list or high risk for Covid-19) with the exception of under 18 year olds as the Covid vaccine is not currently recommended for this age group and also with the exception of pregnant women as it is not currently recommended for pregnant women.
Update 19.2.2021 to cohort 4
Cohort 6. All individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality.
All individuals who are normally offered the flu jab under the age of 65 with the exception of pregnant women and children under the age of 16 as the Covid Vaccine is not currently recommended for these groups.
Clinically at risk groups for Covid are as follows:
Note about breast feeding women who are clinically vulnerable
The JCVI advice published on 30 December 2020 says there is no known risk in giving available COVID-19 vaccines to breastfeeding women.
Breastfeeding women will now be offered vaccination if they are otherwise eligible, for example if they are in a clinically extremely vulnerable group or a frontline health or social care worker, including a carer in a residential home. Women should be advised that there is lack of safety data for these specific vaccinations in breastfeeding.
We agree with the JCVI recommendation and support it.
At the same time though, there are occasions at the end of a vaccine session where a vial has been opened and we need to use the spare doses of vaccine urgently or else they will go to waste. We would like to prioritise critical workers for any such spare doses at the vaccine and need your mobile phone in order to call you urgently.
Below are the categories of critical workers that we will consider for inclusion in our standby list.
Please follow the link below to be included in the standby list. The practice reserves the right to remove a person from the list if we have reason to believe that there information is incorrect.
Standby list for critical workers in the under 50s group (Phase 2)
[1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
[2] https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
3. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/961287/Greenbook_chapter_14a_v7_12Feb2021.pdf