Week 2 Lonsdale’s “Home Delivery service of Winter Vaccines” .. more than 70% of our housebound list are now vaccinated..

Posted on October 18th, 2022

Photo shows Natalie Khelifi, operations manager LMG, and Dr Simon Read, GP at the end of their delivery day.

Building on the success of last week’s winter vaccine delivery service, we had another week, the 18th and 20th of October, visiting a further 42 of our housebound patients, for assessment and delivery of the COVID-19 Autumn booster (Moderna Spikevax Bivalent vaccine which protects against the original and omicron variant very effectively) and the flu vaccine.. we have now visited more than 70% of our housebound patients in the last two weeks and aim to complete this by early November, offering our housebound patients an early winter vaccine delivery. This service was a pilot this year and has been very popular and successful so far. It also allows us to not only give the winter vaccines but also allows us to carry out ad-hoc checks that may be due (such as blood pressure, foot checks, and medication reviews), answer questions, and then refer patients to district nursing teams if blood tests or dressings are required. Also, it is just very nice to be able to see our housebound patients face-to-face again!