Due to the unprecedented scale of the vaccination programme, rollout is taking place in stages. Primary Care Networks – groups of family doctors working together – are providing local vaccination services for the patients registered with their practices. 

The Primary Care Network (PCN) covering your area may not have gone live yet. Once live, the vaccination service will contact all of their patients over the age of 80 and invite them for their Covid-19 vaccination.

We are expecting all PCN sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria to be up and running by early 2021.

We ask people to be patient, please wait until you are invited for an appointment, and don’t your practice – they will contact you.

Across Lancashire and South Cumbria there are seven hospital hubs providing vaccinations. More hospital hubs are expected to become live in the coming weeks.

Sites live to date include:

• Blackpool Victoria Hospital (opens in a new window)
• Burnley General Teaching Hospital (opens in a new window)
• Furness General Hospital (opens in a new window)
• Royal Preston Hospital (opens in a new window)
• Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (opens in a new window)

• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (opens in a new window)

• Royal Lancaster Infirmary (opens in a new window)

The NHS has begun vaccinating patients against coronavirus at dozens of hospital hubs around the country, covering every region.

More hospital hubs are expected to be online and ready to vaccinate shortly, which will be complemented by local vaccination services provided by groups of GP surgeries known as Primary Care Networks (PCNs).

Now that more doses of Covid-19 vaccines are available, the NHS is able to open more vaccination services in Lancashire and South Cumbria, including large Vaccination Centres and, in the near future, pharmacies.

People who are eligible, live near these new vaccination services and who haven’t already been vaccinated by their local GP led vaccination services or hospital hub, will receive letters from the NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service, telling them how they can book their appointment.

The NHS is rolling out additional services quickly, but it remains important that the public don’t try to book or go to these services before they receive their booking letter.

If you receive a letter from the national NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service and you book an appointment, please make sure you attend it. The sooner you get your vaccination, when eligible, the earlier you will be protected from Covid-19.

Vaccination centres offer an important additional option for people who are eligible, and we expect more sites to be available across Lancashire and South Cumbria in the coming days and weeks.

Please don’t delay having your vaccine, but if you can’t travel to a vaccination centre or you would rather wait for an appointment closer to home, you can choose to do that, and your local GP-led service will be in touch soon to offer an alternative.

In Lancashire and South Cumbria, we expect to put in place additional Vaccination Centres over the coming weeks in Central Lancashire, Fylde Coast, Morecambe Bay and Pennine Lancashire. As soon as these are ready and available they will appear on the national NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service.

We are continuing to vaccinate patients over the age of 80 years of age and are inviting people in according to the criteria and prioritisation set by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Like the rest of the NHS we are working to offer vaccines to everyone in the top priority groups by the middle of February. 

Please do not contact us if you haven’t received an invite yet. We are very busy at the moment and doing so could prevent a patient who needs our help from getting through. We will contact you when it is the right time for you to book your appointment.