Michael Leighton Beaman

Dear Editor Members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Retired Pharmacists Group Committee have been collating our various experience of being vaccinated with the first and second doses of the Covid-19 vaccines. We live in different areas of England, Wales and Scotland, and although our experience is limited, it probably represents the range of practice in different vaccine centres in the UK.

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