South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

to more people from the community who have learning disabilities and autism. Pilot sensory vaccine community clinic video: Pilot sensory Covid-19 vaccination clinic - YouTube Meet the Nurse and GP and Zoom Q&A Video: Share Community NHS Wandsworth Covid-19 Vaccine Video Wandsworth – Building confidence in the Ahmadiyya Community Together with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Wandsworth, we delivered two evening Covid-19 vaccine engagement sessions with our trusted clinician Dr Ban Haider and Nick Beavon, our chief pharmacist, reaching 100 and 147 families respectively. The use of Urdu interpreters was highly valued helping to ensure the information was appropriately tailored and clear. Their feedback and offer to host a community vaccine clinic led to us working together with Ahmadiyya and the Wandle Primary Care Network, led by Dr Laura Quinton, to plan Wandsworth’s first pop up vaccination clinic at the Fazl Mosque in Southfields. The community clinic proved a great success with over 1000 members of the community taking up the Covid-19 jab in just one day on the National Covid Day of Reflection, which marked the anniversary of the UK’s first national lockdown. The National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK, Rafiq Hayat said: “Recent studies have shown significantly lower than average take-up of vaccines among people from ethnic minorities. However, as Muslims, service to humanity is our duty, and we have been clear that we fully support the vaccination programme. “We are very grateful to the NHS heroes who are working hard to protect the health of the nation - they deserve our constant prayers and immense gratitude.” Kingston Listening to people living with a disability We organised a Covid-19 session with Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL) which was attended by more than 50 people living with a disability and their carers, as part of their monthly online coffee morning. The session gave people an informal opportunity for them to put questions to a clinician, including concerns about the safety of the vaccine, side effects and fact checking. The session was very well received, and we have been invited back for follow up sessions to continue the conversation about the Covid-19 vaccine. Fact checking vaccination myths in Arabic We held two Covid vaccine sessions entirely in Arabic, with an Arabic speaking GP providing information about the Covid vaccine, fact checking and reassuring around issues such as porcine content. Organised in partnership with Refugee Action Kingston, these sessions reached refugees, asylum seekers and permanent residents who speak Arabic in the borough. We were pleased to 70 | NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group