So we are to have seven regional vaccination 'super centres'. I'm not sure the is sensible from a logistical point of view.
Let's say we want those centres to do the bulk of the 2 million vaccinations, and allowing them to work 16 hours a day, and do equal numbers in each centre. That requires each centre to do 41,000 vaccinations a day, or 2550 an hour, or 42 per minute. Allowing a 15 minute post-injection anaphylaxis alert time, that requires waiting space for 640 people.
Assuming each injection takes 2 minutes, that's a parallel processing path of 84 slots.
Those numbers sound...challenging.
Then there's the issue of access. Seven regional centres means long journeys for most people. If we want to prioritise the elderly first, those journeys will be difficult to impossible.
My father (90) has been called for vaccination this week, but, even though it's only 8 miles away, it would have been difficult, had he not still been reasonably mobile, and able to drive.
He did ask about transport, and the suggestion was to use the bus. That doesn't seem a great idea if were trying to isolate (my parents were regular bus pass users prior to this, but haven't used it at all since March). Another suggestion was a taxi; that would cost £60 round trip, and that also has transmission risks.
So, even with local vaccination centres, there are access problems. For a small number of regional centres, access and throughput seem to be beyond practical implementation.
I guess we'll see how it works.