NHS to trial 24-hour vaccinations at some hospitals in the next 10 days

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Selected hospitals will start trialling round-the-clock vaccinations in the next 10 days, the head of NHS England has announced.

Sir Simon Stevens said 24-hour-a-day jabs would be “tested” at hospitals in England following a pledge by Boris Johnson. But it is still unclear whether the appointments will be for the wider public, or just NHS staff.

A source last week suggested it would be for staff. The NHS also did not immediately provide a list of where 24-hour vaccinations would take place, or how long the trial would last.

NHS England chief executive Sir Simon told the BBC: “We will start testing 24/7 in some hospitals over the course of the next 10 days. "But we are at the moment vaccinating at about 140 jabs a minute and yesterday

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