The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7222 p635
2 November 2002

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ASDA to repeat 'flu vaccination offer

The ASDA supermarket chain is to offer influenza vaccinations for a second time this year because sales on the first occasion were so successful (PJ, 5 October, p470). Nurses from Doctorcall will be at 80 ASDA supermarkets on 9 November from 9am to 2pm.

ASDA said that it had been astonished at the success of its first initiative, with customers queuing for vaccinations before sales started. Demand was strongest in East Anglia, where vaccine supplies were exhausted within hours of being made available. "It's clear that thousands of shoppers appreciated the convenience of picking up their 'flu jabs with their fish fingers and feta cheese," said ASDA's healthcare director David Miles.

Customers will be expected to pay for their injections at store checkouts before completing prevaccination questionnaires and seeing the Doctorcall nurses.

Letters, p643