Doctors' assistants want to help with Covid vaccinations but GGD won't call back
3 years, 7 months ago

Doctors' assistants want to help with Covid vaccinations but GGD won't call back

NL Times  

Thousands of doctors' assistants who indicated they wanted to help with the Covid-19 vaccination campaign have not received a response from municipal health service GGD. Despite the GGD needing six thousand more people to help carry out the national vaccination process, assistants are rarely called to help because the health service prefers to hire people through temporary employment agencies, Parool reported. According to GGD West-Brabant chair Annemieke van der Zijden many of the GGDs preferred to hire people through temporary employment to ensure they would not need to pay employment benefits in the future. At the same time, RIVM vaccination program leader Jaap van Delden said he was happy with the current progress of the vaccination campaign.

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Health services frantically recruiting people to administer new round of Covid vaccines
2 years, 5 months ago

Health services frantically recruiting people to administer new round of Covid vaccines

NL Times  

The 25 GGDs in the Netherlands need an estimated 13,000 employees for the new coronavirus vaccination campaign starting this autumn. Recruiting this many people is a massive task, especially given the tight labor market, AD reports after speaking to the health services. A big problem is that many of the GGD workers who worked on the previous vaccination rounds now …

Dutch military to help GGD with Covid-19 vaccinations from Monday
3 years, 7 months ago

Dutch military to help GGD with Covid-19 vaccinations from Monday

NL Times  

Starting on Monday, the Dutch military will begin assisting the GGD with administering Covid-19 vaccinations in Arnhem and Barneveld. This is the first time military personnel will be helping out with Covid-19 vaccinations in the Netherlands, though they have provided support at test centers in the past. The initiative began after the Gelderland-Midden branch of municipal health service GGD put …

RIVM picks new leadership team for Covid vaccine program
3 years, 8 months ago

RIVM picks new leadership team for Covid vaccine program

NL Times  

Jaap van Delden is leaving his position as the Covid-19 vaccination program director at public health agency RIVM, the organization announced on Monday. Van Delden was recently at the receiving end of criticism for saying that the Netherlands would not move forward with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, at a time when the country's leadership was also promoting the vaccination of …

Some 60,000 vaccination appointments made in 2 days; A turning point, Royals say
4 years ago

Some 60,000 vaccination appointments made in 2 days; A turning point, Royals say

NL Times  

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are delighted that vaccination against the coronavirus has started in the Netherlands, calling it a turning point for getting out this crisis. Over the past two days, nearly 60 thousand care workers booked an appointment to be vaccinated through health service GGD. Over the past two days, 59,608 care workers made an appointment to get …

First 10,000 coronavirus vaccination appointments made
4 years ago

First 10,000 coronavirus vaccination appointments made

NL Times  

Municipal health service GGD announced that it had scheduled the first ten thousand people to be inoculated against Covid-19 within hours after a special phone number opened up on Monday. Call center workers scheduled one coronavirus vaccination appointment every two seconds during the first 6.5 hours that the hotline was open. The first workers to get access to the vaccine …

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