Vaccines Minister Do we still have one?

Yes, here she is.
inews.co.uk/news/politics/maggie-throup-new-vaccine-minister-1204015

Maggie Throup is the new Vaccines Minister.

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Thanks for that.

DH tells me that Suzanna Reid and Richard Madeley googled ‘who is the current vaccines minister’ on GMB today as they also questioned whether we did actually have one given that there seemed to be complete silence these days from that department!

I thought exactly that on my way to my flu vaccine this morning.

Hopefully as she is not on every current affairs or news program she is busy in the office getting acquainted with her brief and staff.

Let’s just hope she’s working hard on the booster vaccination programme. Maybe getting better publicity for local vaccination centres would be a good start.

Our local walk-in clinic is open , no appointments needed for first/second vaccine. Received email and text from NHS at beginning of October inviting us for third jab, DH went this morning I am going next week.

Publicised in local press, FaceBook/NextDoor and online community groups (I am not on any of these, but AC are and always like to let me know what’s going on).

Vaccination reminders seem to be on every news item, not easy to miss.

Well, all I can say is it must vary from area to area because I’ve heard nothing and I only know about the local vaccination centre because someone on Facebook mentioned it and said it was empty because nobody knew about it.

Maybee are you 6 months from your second Covid vaccine? I got a text ( and later a letter) exactly 6 months and a day after my second to book my booster. The text mentioned my CEV status so maybe got called up slightly faster.

I’ve got two weeks to go. Hoping to hear sometime next week. Can’t wait to have it done.

She is a useless constituency MP so I’m not holding my breath that she’ll be any good at her new post