Covid-19 vaccinations have begun - here's where your nearest NHS vaccination centre is

Tuesday 8 December marked the first day of the biggest vaccination rollout in British history.

A vaccination against Covid-19 will be available to select members of the public, with the first people being immunised against the disease which has fundamentally affected life across the globe for almost a calendar year.

Vaccinations will be administered at dozens of hospital hubs; people aged 80 and older, care home workers and NHS workers who are at higher risk are at the front of the queue for the jabs.

Here is everything you need to know:

Who was first to get the vaccine?

The first member of the British public to receive the vaccine was 90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan, who became the first person in the world to receive Pfizer’s Covid-19 jab as a patient.

Keenan, known to family and friends as Maggie, received the jab from nurse May Parsons at University Hospital in Coventry at 6.31am.

"I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19,” she said. “It’s the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year.”

When will I get the vaccine?

In England, vaccines will be available initially in up to 50 Hospital Hubs across England.

But while the beginning of the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine is undeniably good news, it may be some time until it is widely available to members of the public not falling into high risk groups.

Sir Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, has said there is “every prospect” that by spring the high-risk vulnerable groups, as identified by the medical experts, will all have been vaccinated.

But Sir Simon added that it will take “some weeks and months as vaccine supply becomes available for GPs and hospitals and pharmacists to reach all of the most vulnerable”.

GP surgeries in England have been told to be ready to start staffing GP-led Covid-19 vaccination centres by 14 December.

The first to receive the vaccine in these centres will be those aged 80 and over, as long as other risk factors, “clinical or otherwise”, have been taken into account.

Where is my nearest vaccine hub?

In England, vaccines will be available initially in up to 50 Hospital Hubs across England.

Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said hospitals in England have identified appropriate places to conduct the vaccinations.

He said the ideal place is close to a car park and separate from any other clinical area where there might be a risk of Covid-19 infection.

Staff will be working out the best arrangements in a socially distanced way and there will be timed slots to minimise queueing.

The full list of 50 Covid-19 vaccine hubs in the first wave of vaccinations has been revealed, and the full list is as follows:

• Blackpool Teaching HospitalBrighton And Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust – Royal Sussex County Hospital
• Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
• Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – William Harvey Hospital
• East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
• East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
• Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust – Wexham Park Hospital