March 2021 HWS – Covid Vaccine report

In response to COVID-19, the NHS has launched one of the largest public vaccination programmes ever. The purpose of this work was to hear from local people and understand their views of the COVID-19 vaccine and whether or not there is any hesitancy in getting vaccinated.

To help local services and national policymakers understand how they can improve the vaccination programme, Healthwatch England developed a set of template questions which we used. During February 2021, we invited people across Sefton, to take part in the survey to find out their views, attitudes and concerns towards the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out and the communications that have supported this. The survey can be found in appendix one. This was part of a wider piece of work undertaken by local Healthwatch throughout England and nationally.