South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

to the final few. This award acknowledges organisations that are working together to tackle health inequalities and provide better quality care. Delivering the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Croydon Croydon secured its place in history by vaccinating one of the first people in the world against Covid-19. Croydon resident and long-standing NHS volunteer, George Dyer, aged 90 from Norbury in South London, received the injection at Croydon University Hospital on Tuesday 8 December 2020. Beginning in November 2020, Croydon GP led Primary Care Networks set up vaccination sites at venues across the borough to offer vaccination to those most at risk of catching Covid-19. Vaccinations were successfully delivered to people in the first four priority groups (cohorts) defined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on 15th February. After extensive engagement with local communities, it became clear that we needed to take the vaccination to additional venues - where the community were already going - to encourage the uptake of the vaccine amongst lower uptake groups. From March 2021, our GPs, nurses and pharmacists worked with local community groups and faith leaders to set up pop-up clinics at the Croydon mosque, His Grace Evangelical Church, Nightwatch Food Kitchen, the Sakthy Ghanapathy temple, Centrale shopping centre, Selhurst Park Stadium and Turning point’s Lantern Hall centre for the homeless. These walk-in clinics, where no appointment was needed, have helped us to encourage more people to take the vaccine amongst hesitant and harder to reach groups. 46 | NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group