Great progress on care home vaccination in Powys

Thursday saw another 250 care home residents vaccinated in Powys across nine different care homes.

Among them was The Grove residential home in Ystradgynlais who were vaccinated by the Ystradgynlais District Nursing Team.

Thelma Davey was the first resident in the home to receive the vaccine from District Nurse Melissa James.

Our thanks go out to all of our staff who are working so incredibly hard across the county to bring the COVID vaccination to as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

This is a huge undertaking involving staff from across all disciplines and departments.

We know how keen people are to be vaccinated and ask you to bear with us. We are experiencing very high call volumes to our call centres and are booking people in as quickly as we can. If your call is disconnected this is because all lines are busy, please do call back.

More information about COVID-19 vaccination in Powys is available from our website at https://pthb.nhs.wales/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccination/

Please wait to be contacted to be invited for your vaccination

Invitation letters are currently being issued based on the national priority list, beginning with invitations to people aged 80 and over.

Patients will be invited based on where you are registered with a GP.
Frontline health and care workers will be invited via your employer based on where you work.

About a third of letters to people aged 80 and over in Powys have been sent already (around 3000 people), and everyone aged 80 and over (around 10,000 people) should receive their invitation during January.

Please don’t contact your GP, pharmacy, health board, hospital or local authority.