South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

The vaccine programme • Nonsuch Mansion Vaccination Centre Sutton’s 23 GP Practices formed a single “Primary Care Network Grouping” to deliver Covid-19 vaccinations using a new collaborative model of care. The GP practices, alongside the NHS Sutton primary care transformation team and Sutton Health and Care community services, worked as a single, blended team to rapidly mobilise a local vaccination service for Sutton’s residents at Nonsuch Mansion in Cheam. The vaccination centre opened on 15 December 2020, with staff from the GP Practices working together to deliver Pfizer vaccinations to people living or working in Sutton or registered with a Sutton GP. As of 31 March 2021, over 20,000 vaccines have been delivered at the centre. The vaccination service at Nonsuch Mansion has been supported by over a hundred volunteers. Coordinated by the Volunteer Centre Sutton, these volunteers helped support people visiting the large site. They made sure people maintained social distancing and that infection control measures were adhered to at all times, with minimal waiting time outside or inside the building, helping to ensure that everybody has their vaccination safely. • Vaccinations in the community As well as the vaccination centre at Nonsuch Mansion, Sutton’s GPs, working with Sutton Health and Care Community Services, have taken Oxford Astra Zeneca (Oxford AZ) vaccines into the large number of residential, care and nursing homes across the borough, to vaccinate both residents and staff. The teams have also visited Sutton residents at home to deliver vaccinations to people who are housebound. Sutton’s GPs are also vaccinating their registered patients at practices across the borough. • Outreach Sutton’s GPs have set up pop-up vaccination clinics to reach vaccine- hesitant communities, in places of worship, at traveller sites and for the homeless, with plans in place for future pop-up clinics for underserved populations such as unaccompanied asylum seekers. Post-Covid-19 plans for Sutton For some people, Covid-19 can cause symptoms that last weeks or months after the infection has gone. This is known as post-Covid. The London Clinical Advisory Group has published guidance to support the management of post-Covid which is to be “I like the local public health approach: you are not always right, I am not always right, let’s discuss, let us resolve the problem, let us not blame anyone, let us learn together, let us support each other and share good practice.” Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 | 59