“It was so haphazard. Nobody knew what the other one was doing”
Bereaved families have criticised the “haphazard” rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, including concerns over who was classed a key worker and access for rural communities.
Giving evidence, Melanie Newdick, whose mother died after contracting Covid-19, criticised disparities in the speed of the vaccine rollout across the different parts of the UK, including Scotland. She said of the system: “We have to ring the health board, or we have to go online, and we have to find a clinic to go for that vaccination. We can’t go to the GP for any vaccination, not a tetanus, not a childhood vaccination, not a flu, not a Covid, nothing.”
Helena Rossiter, representing the group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, told the probe that although her son Peter was a teacher, he was not on the priority list to receive the vaccine.
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