As the Covid-19 vaccine rolls out across the UK, Dr Julie Yates and her team have been working around the clock to make sure it’s delivered safely and effectively. “We have been involved in planning for a vaccination programme from the summer onwards,” explains Dr Yates. “There were no vaccines then, but we were ever hopeful that our colleagues who were developing them would eventually find a way through this for us, and we wanted to ensure we’d be ready as soon as possible after any vaccine was approved. “This is probably the biggest vaccination programme we’ve ever launched and it’s been very fast and exciting.