COVID-conquering colleagues in Rugby have come together to mark five years since they began administering thousands of vaccines in Rugby.
Around 90 healthcare professionals and volunteers met to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Locke House Vaccination Centre.
Together, they delivered 170,000 vaccinations – more than any other centre in the Coventry and Warwickshire region – between 2020 and 2022.
Since then, the ‘Locke House volunteers’ have formed a grassroots movement supporting communities, and raising awareness of healthy and sociable living through gardening projects, organised activities and social gatherings.
Rugby Health Limited Transformation Project Manager Gita Natarajan, who managed Locke House and received a British Empire Medal for services to the community in 2022, said: “The can-do attitude, the humour and the empathy shown by the Locke House volunteers, along with the effective management of the Primary Care staff, is what made for an effective partnership that saved many a life during the Covid times, when emotions ran high, and life, as we knew it, came to a stand-still.
“The community spirit behind this success will forever be recognised and celebrated.”
