This is the eighth blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh blogs in the series. Last week, we reached a milestone. 6 months of operating as a vaccine hub. We hit 20,000 vaccines administered across the Primary Care Network. An upgrade from doughnuts to a […]
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A marathon not a sprint: The endurance of Physician Associates by Ammara Hughes
This is the seventh blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth blogs in the series. Three years ago, I ran my first marathon. As runners will know, this generally comprises of a four-to-five-month training programme, which becomes all consuming. You fit the runs around […]
The trial of Astrazeneca by Ammara Hughes
This is the sixth blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth blogs in the series. Drugs are a funny old thing. One minute, they’re the best thing since sliced bread. The next, you’d rather be sticking hot needles in your eyes than ever consider […]
Time for a pop-up! by Ammara Hughes
This is the fifth blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, third, and fourth blogs in the series. Pop-ups. The de rigeur of this millennium. You know you’ve made it if you have a farmer’s market or street market within a mile radius of you. We can’t […]
Happy New Year! The debacle of second doses by Ammara Hughes
This is the fourth blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, and third blogs in the series. 30 December 2020 A much needed long bank holiday this Christmas. Not as happy as it should have been for many. A second wave of COVID was in full […]
Cool boxes and care homes by Ammara Hughes
This is the third blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first blog here and second blog here. We love a protocol in the NHS. Our intranets and desktops are crammed full of them. Of course, we need them for robust clinical governance. The trouble is, by the […]
Going viral by Ammara Hughes
This is the second blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first blog here. Saturday 19 December Second Pfizer delivery awaited. It had been a long week with the anticipation and then successful delivery of the first 975 vaccines culminating on Friday. We had accepted the challenge of […]