The NHS vaccination programme has reached its latest big milestone of offering a jab to everyone in the top nine priority groups three days ahead of schedule. Everyone in government and the health service is celebrating. Boris Johnson has been busy thanking ‘everyone involved in the vaccine rollout which has already saved many thousands of lives’, while NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens has said:
‘Thanks to our NHS nurses, doctors, pharmacists, operational managers and thousands of other staff and volunteers, the NHS Covid vaccination programme is without a doubt the most successful in our history. It’s one of our tickets out of this pandemic and offers real hope for the future.’
The NHS backlog and levelling up are just two issues alongside many other policies that have been pushed to one side in the rush to deal with coronavirus
There is naturally plenty of jostling to take credit for the success of this programme, with those in the NHS placing a heavy emphasis on the fact that it was drawn up by the health service and administered by the health service.
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