Health chiefs knocked back a Covid vaccine offer from GPs in Ayrshire – weeks before the outbreak of Omicron.Ayrshire Live can reveal that family doctors across the county offered to put thousands of shots in arms ahead of Christmas.But the proposal was rejected before medics were last week put on a war footing to tackle the new virus variant.Now around a quarter of surgeries across Ayrshire have been drafted in to help with the emergency effort.However, one leading doctor insists the move should have been made as far back as October – and claims lives could have been saved as a result.The experienced GP, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said: "Public health were simply not interested in our offer of help."We could have handled