Marlow vaccine centre has the capacity to double workload

Already the biggest programme in British history more than 10 million people have been vaccinated in the UK.

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Located at Marlow Globe Park, the centre has impressed with its efficiency despite reports of one in five patients missing appointments.

However, no vaccines have been wasted and the centre is prepared to increase the number of vaccinations they do by double.

The pharmacist leader Olivier Picard said: “Currently, we're being sent doses that will keep us occupied at less than 50 percent capacity.

“We could do twice as many people, twice as fast but that obviously is vaccine dependent.

“Whilst there is plenty of vaccines on the market, there are also plenty of centres that need to receive that vaccine, it would be unfair for a centre to receive more than another."

Olivier believes that the centre is well prepared for the increase in the number of vaccines available and the number of people wanting to be vaccinated.

He continued: “There'll be a time where it will be anyone aged 16 to 64 with a medical condition as well as a 60 to 64. So that would be Group six.

“That's going to be a big group.

“Then when we go further down, we're going to have anyone age 50 and over and that's another big group of patients.

“As a result of that, we expect to see the demand being greater and the NHS is already saying that because they can see what appointments we're getting in 12 weeks for the second dose, they know that more people are going to come on board.

“We're expecting the amount of vaccine that we are allocated to increase.”

Olivier Picard talking to BBC London News last week

There is even hope that the centre will be able to order as many vaccines as they need to fulfil the number of appointments booked by patients.

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Olivier added: “There's even talk that we may be able to order our vaccines in the future.

“If we have two and a half thousand or three thousand appointments in one week, then we'll be able to order sufficient vaccine to fulfil those.

“At the moment, we receive an allocation of vaccine, whether that's 1000, 1500, 2000 doses and we open this number of appointments on a national booking system.

“People are obviously looking to be vaccinated locally because we understand that pretty much every set up in the area are almost at 100 per cent capacity."