14 new Covid-19 vaccination sites confirmed across Suffolk and Essex

Patients queuing for a coronavirus vaccine in Danbury near Chelmsford. Credit: ITV News Anglia

14 new Covid-19 vaccination sites will be going live across Suffolk and North East Essex.

They'll open next week, beginning on 11th January.

Dr Mark Shenton Credit: ITV News Anglia

Vaccinations will be given according to the current priority schedule which includes elderly vulnerable people aged 80 or over.

The current priority groups are:

1 - Residents in a care home for older adults and their carers

2 - Those aged 80 and over and frontline health and social care workers

3 - Those aged 75 and over

4 - Those aged 70 and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals

5 - Those aged 65 of age and over

6 - All individuals aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality

7 - Those aged 60 and over

8 - Those aged 55 years and over

9 - Those aged 50 years of age and over

Lisa Nobes, Director of Nursing at the Suffolk and North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Groups. Credit: ITV News Anglia

The locations across Suffolk and north east Essex, which excludes the Waveney area of Suffolk, are:

  • Fryatt Hospital, Harwich

  • Jubilee Centre, Mildenhall

  • Constable Country Medical Practice, East Bergholt

  • Debenham Leisure Centre

  • The EPIC centre, Haverhill Research Park

  • Hadleigh Health Centre

  • Hardwicke House Surgery Cornard branch, Sudbury

  • Lavenham branch, Long Melford Surgery

  • Saxmundham Health

  • Sizewell Sports & Social Club, Leiston

  • The Grove Medical Centre, Felixstowe

  • The Mix, Stowmarket

  • Trinity Park Conference Centre, Ipswich

  • Woodbridge Community Hall

These sites are in addition to the sites that went live during December in Bury St. Edmunds, Ipswich (x2), Clacton, Colchester and Woolpit.

Additional sites will be announced in due course.

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