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Mass vaccination facility set up in Exeter with help from Network Rail volunteers

Alan Holden avatar by Alan Holden
26th January 2021
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Last week a team from Network Rail volunteered to help set up the new COVID-19 Vaccination Centre in Exeter, Devon.

The new large-scale Vaccination Centre has been set up inside the main building at Westpoint Exeter.

Around 100 pallets of equipment were unloaded from lorries and required setting up ready for the facility to open today (26th January)

Furniture required assembly along with organising signage and constructing vaccination pods at the centre just off the M5 motorway.

Last year Network Rail teams worked to turn a former Homebase store into the Nightingale Hospital Exeter.

Exeter Covid Vaccination Network Rail
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Nick Millington, Network Rail’s director of Safety taskforce, coordinated Network Rail’s volunteering efforts, said: “We are so proud to have played a part in helping set up this hugely important Vaccination Centre in Exeter.”

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“Throughout the pandemic, colleagues right across Network Rail have worked tirelessly to help keep our trains and stations running safely for the benefit of our passengers, and we were delighted to have the opportunity to continue contributing towards overcoming COVID-19 away from the tracks.”

“It was immensely rewarding to have helped build the Nightingale Hospital in Exeter last year and to see so many colleagues pull together again in a similar fashion speaks volumes of the selfless individuals who have contributed their time to get this vaccination facility up and running.”

Mike Gallop, Network Rail’s Wales & Western interim managing director, said: “I would like to commend my Network Rail colleagues for their dedication and commitment in supporting the NHS in Devon set up this life-saving Vaccination Centre.”

“I look forward to seeing the first people be vaccinated and am truly hopeful this facility helps protect the people of the south-west from COVID-19 and enables all of us to return to normality as soon as is safely possible.”

Darryn Allcorn, Devon’s lead chief nurse, said: “We’re very grateful to all the people from Network Rail who volunteered to help set up the Vaccination Centre at Westpoint. It was a fantastic effort by all, and our new centres mean we are on track to further increase the scale and pace of the vaccination programme in Devon.”

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