There seems to be a few systems in the country for getting your Jab.
In my area of Suffolk its all GP based. The GP phones you, want a jab tomorrow? Can you do 1015? The time can be negotiated.
You rock up to the medical centre 10 minutes before your appointment. If your are in a car, you drive to the checkpoint. We tick off you name, put an A4 laminated number under the windscreen wiper of you car and tell you to park up and wait in your car. We have 2 volunteers manning the checkpoint and 2 roving bods.
The surgery call us on the radio, next 4 patients please. We consult the list, to see who is next, locate the patients car by using the number we gave out when they entered. Tell them its their turn, remove the number, for reuse, direct the to them entrance door and off they go to get jabbed.
Patients who arrive on foot are directed to a covered waiting area, with chairs spaced out. We just wander over an let them know when its their turn.
The appointments are at 2 minute intervals, with a 10 minute break every hour.
Yesterday morning we were on the drag by no more than 10 minutes and yesterday afternoon we got ahead by 10 minutes. It all depends on how old the patients are and how quickly they can walk, take off and put on their coat etc.
The worst delay we had was 1 hr 40. Someone was diagnosed with covid after they had entered the surgery !
This is a medium sized village surgery, which also looks after the surrounding villages and does about 200- 300 jabs a day, 2-3 days a week as and when the vaccine is available.
I am not a medic, just one of the marshaling team leaders.