Talk:COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom

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How to expand the lead

As part of page curation, a hatnote (or maintenance tag) has been added to the page alerting us to an issue with the brevity of the lead and that it may not adequately summarise the rest of the article. It's not immediately obvious how the lead should be expanded. I thought we could start a discussion here as to how to best do this. Looking at the other sections and subsections, it will not be easy to summarise the information. I was wondering whether more of an overview should be taken where something could be said about the different bodies involved in vaccine deployment. It can't all just fall under the auspices of Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment, it seems to draw from a number of placed, including Public Health England. There's also an issue of ensuring that the lead reflects the whole of the UK, and not just the relevant bodies in England.

The MHRA are much more involved than they may seem, also I believe NIBSC to be involved in initial batch testing: "The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, part of the agency, has been and will continue doing, independent laboratory testing so that every batch of the vaccine meets the expected standards of safety and quality."^[1]. NIBSC are also involved in testing coronavirus vaccines globally, but this is not as relevant. ^[2]

Also, there's the Vaccine Taskforce (UK) which are also involved, in a more overarching way. This article in The Guardian provides a perspective from the UK Vaccine Taskforce and states the following: "NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) and Public Health England are leading on the operational delivery of the vaccination programme in England."^[3] These details might help expand the lead by writing a few sentences about the various bodies involved. There are clearly more moving parts than first meets the eye. The article mentions the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation further down the page, but they should perhaps be mentioned in the lead too. This PDF contains a lot of useful information, some of it slightly out-of-date though.^[4]

The BMA also appear to be involved with what they term "CVP" (COVID-19 vaccination programme) in England.^[5]^[6]^[7] This group letter from NHS (Skipton House) also sheds light on the 3 defined deployment models as at 20 November 2020 and also gives two key names: Emily Lawson, Chief Commercial Officer and SRO for Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment NHS England and NHS Improvement; and Sue Harriman, Chief Operating Officer Covid-19 Vaccination Deployment Programme.^[8] I hope these links help in some way to produce more of an overview of the bodies involved. SpookiePuppy (talk) 20:23, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.nibsc.org/about_us/latest_news/c-19_vaccine.aspx

[2] ttps://www.nibsc.org/about_us/latest_news/c19_vaccine_testing.aspx

[3] ttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/16/tensions-mount-over-handling-of-uk-covid-vaccine-rollout

[4] ttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/943663/Greenbook_chapter_14a_v3.pdf

[5] ttps://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/covid-19/gp-practices/covid-19-vaccination-programme

[6] ttps://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/12/C0938_PCN-notice-letter-4-December-2020.pdf

[7] ttps://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/12/C0923-legal-mechanisms-for-adminstration-of-the-covid-19-vaccines-v2-10-december-2020.pdf

[8] ttps://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/11/covid-19-vacc-deployment-strategy-and-operational-readiness-letter.pdf

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