Creating a pharmacy COVID jab hub in a hotel after 4 months of delays

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Nat Mitchell, the owner of JWW Allison & Sons pharmacy in Cockermouth, Cumbria was among the first pharmacies to apply to administer the vaccines in December 2020. In many respects he is the ideal candidate, having delivered the most flu jabs in England in the 2017-18 season by completing 1,444 vaccinations. In addition, his business has the capacity to administer 60 vaccines an hour – far more than the initial NHSE&I requirement of 1,000 a week. Why has his pharmacy team not yet started administering the vaccines? Mr Mitchell spoke to C+D features editor Thomas Cox in a podcast