Dear colleagues, We start the New Year having delivered an astonishing 13.8 million vaccinations to protect our population against COVID-19, including almost 3.5 million boosters and third doses as we race to increase people’s immunity against the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Over the last 23 days, since the Prime Minister and the NHS launched an […]

Dear colleagues, After we passed our third major COVID-19 vaccination milestone on 19 July, I made a short video expressing my profound thanks to everyone who has contributed to protecting our population against this virus. I would like to take this opportunity to say some of that again here. Many thanks to NHS staff, partners […]

Dear colleagues, England’s success in reaching the finals of the Euros has helped us reach more people with the COVID-19 vaccine. We ran a powerful communications campaign, urging people to “keep COVID-19 offside”, and “when your moment comes take the shot” which saw thousands of people have their vaccinations at clinics across the North West, some […]

Dear colleagues, WOW! We have now given more than eight million vaccinations to protect our population against COVID-19, including 4.7 million first doses and 3.5 million second doses. Some of this is due to our wonderful weekend of walk-ins (WOW) from 17 to 20 June, during which more than 150,000 vaccinations were delivered. I made […]

Dear colleagues, We are moving at pace to implement the new targets set for us yesterday by the Prime Minister, so everyone aged 18+ is offered a first dose by 19 July and two-thirds of all adults are fully vaccinated by the same date. This will be a challenge but with 72.4% of adults in […]