West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is set to be among ‘hospital hubs’ that will receive the new coronavirus vaccine.

Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said the approved Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will start at 50 “hospital hubs” in England next week.

Matt Hancock told Sky News there would be “three modes of delivery” of the vaccine.

“The first is hospitals themselves, which of course we’ve got facilities like this,” he said.

“50 hospitals across the country are already set up and waiting to receive the vaccine as soon as it’s approved, so that can now happen.”

The NHS has published a list of 53 NHS vaccine hubs in England which will co-ordinate delivery of the jabs in their areas - West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is on the list.

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Mr Hancock told the BBC that vaccinations will start with the most elderly, people in care homes and their carers, before coming down the age range, with NHS staff and the clinically extremely vulnerable also high on the priority list.

The UK became the first country in the world to give the go-ahead to the vaccine, paving the way for vaccinations to start next week.

The country has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer jab, enough to vaccinate 20 million people with two doses, given 21 days apart.

The first doses are due to arrive in the UK on Thursday.

Here is a list of all 53 trusts set to rollout the vaccine.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Croydon University Hospital NHS Trust

Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust

Dorset County Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (Colchester Hospital)

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Guys & St Thomas NHS Trust

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Kings College Hospital – Princess Royal University Hospital

Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Leicester Partnership NHS Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex Hospitals Trust

Milton Keynes University Hospital

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

North West Anglia Foundation Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Portsmouth Hospital University Trust

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

St George’s University Hospitals NHS FT

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

University College Hospitals Trust

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire

University Hospitals Derby Burton NHS FT

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Wirral University Teaching Hospital

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust