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UK paediatricians have expressed alarm about a “shambolic” vaccine rollout for children, saying doctors were being “left in the dark” about plans for the programme and unable to answer questions from patients.
Doctors and school leaders have called for clarity on how the rollout will operate, as scientific advice to the government warned significant school resources may be required. The decision on Wednesday to announce that the rollout would be extended to all over 16s is understood to have caught some NHS leaders off-guard.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said there were still no plans in place to vaccinate vulnerable 12- 15-year-olds, even though an announcement had been made extending the jab to healthy people over 16.
Dr Camilla Kingdon, the RCPCH president, said: “The rollout of the vaccine programme for adults has been incredibly impressive, but for children and young people it has been frankly shambolic. This is the second announcement around vaccinations for children or young people in the last three weeks, but we still haven’t seen detailed plans for rollout of the first.”
www.theguardian.com
Throughout the pandemic announcements have been made without any apparent planning about how things will be implemented
Doctors and school leaders have called for clarity on how the rollout will operate, as scientific advice to the government warned significant school resources may be required. The decision on Wednesday to announce that the rollout would be extended to all over 16s is understood to have caught some NHS leaders off-guard.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said there were still no plans in place to vaccinate vulnerable 12- 15-year-olds, even though an announcement had been made extending the jab to healthy people over 16.
Dr Camilla Kingdon, the RCPCH president, said: “The rollout of the vaccine programme for adults has been incredibly impressive, but for children and young people it has been frankly shambolic. This is the second announcement around vaccinations for children or young people in the last three weeks, but we still haven’t seen detailed plans for rollout of the first.”
UK doctors alarmed at ‘shambolic’ rollout of Covid jabs for children
Royal College of Paediatrics says GPs not told how and when young people to be vaccinated
www.theguardian.com
Throughout the pandemic announcements have been made without any apparent planning about how things will be implemented
