History-making Coventry University student May Parsons has called on people from Black, Asian or other ethnic minority communities not to miss out on their Covid-19 jab.
Senior nurse May became the first person in the world to deliver the vaccine to a patient outside of a clinical trial, but she knows the battle is far from over. May, who has worked in the NHS for the last 17 years, is currently undertaking a Senior Leaders Apprenticeship at Coventry University, studying MSc Global Healthcare Management within the School of Nursing Midwifery and Health.
By administering the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to 90-year-old Margaret Keenan at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire on 8 December last year, May kick-started a mammoth NHS vaccination programme that has seen her and her colleagues across the UK administer the first dose to more than 18 million people.
As well as Master’s students like May, Coventry University has approximately 670 students working on placements at UHCW and other hospitals in Warwickshire and in Scarborough, where it also has a campus delivering healthcare degrees.
