Case Study: NHS England achieves rapid mass COVID-19 vaccination delivery with PA Consulting

NHS England delivers 133 million vaccine doses with PA Consulting

NHS England faced the unprecedented challenge of rapidly planning and deploying a mass COVID-19 vaccination program for its entire adult population, even before a vaccine had been approved. PA Consulting was embedded within NHS England to provide expertise in strategic planning, finance, technology, data, and workforce design to prepare for this critical national mission.

PA Consulting implemented a multi-faceted solution that included securing £3 billion in funding, creating sophisticated data models, designing a flexible 'pod' delivery system, and building the new National Immunisation Management System (NIMS). This enabled the delivery of 133 million vaccine doses by December 2021. The program is estimated to have saved 120,000 lives and allowed NHS England to successfully launch a booster campaign that reached a rate of nearly one million doses per day.

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