I fully support the Governments vaccination programme and in particular its booster vaccination programme. 

However, I am really concerned by the recently announced acceleration of that booster programme will have a devastating impact on other NHS preventive services and treatments.   When even the Prime Mister says these will be cancelled, delayed or need to be rescheduled we all need to be very worried. 

As we all know Oldham’s population is not a healthy one – delays in such services will impact on the live expectancy of many of our citizens and have massive impacts on tens of thousands of others.  What steps can we take, with our health partners, to reduce this risk for our residents?