Recommendation 15

We asked NHSE&I whether the timetable for the roll-out of the vaccine was realistic, and how fast it could reach those groups on the priority list. NHSE&I told us that over the first three weeks of the programme, it had administered around 1.1 million doses across the country. and that the speed of vaccinations had tripled over the last week, with 1.2 million vaccinations, meaning that 2.3 million vaccinations had now been administrated in England and 2.5 million across the UK.40 As of [date] over [10] million had been delivered. We commended the progress that had been made to date, but noted that there was still a huge amount of work to do to meet the government’s target. NHSE&I expected the number of vaccinations to further accelerate in the coming weeks as supply of the vaccines increased and confirmed it was on course to have offered a vaccine to everyone in the first four priority groups by 15 February as planned.41