Widespread admin errors prevent COVID vaccine passports from getting to double-jabbed patients

A helpline is to be created for double-jabbed patients who miss out on COVID vaccine passports because of widespread admin errors.

NHS app

The NHS app is currently acting as a COVID certificate for Britons who have received two doses of the vaccine to return from amber list countries without quarantining.

Ministers are now drawing up proposals to make these vaccine passports compulsory to enter pubs, bars, restaurants and clubs by the end of September.

According to the Telegraph, health officials are planning to launch a new service amid growing concern that hundreds of people have not had their vaccinations recorded correctly.

Managers at vaccination centres told the publication that the problem is very common and arises if staff do not save inputted data.

One NHS vaccination centre manager told the Telegraph:

The mistakes are happening really regularly, and most often the problem only gets picked up either when they come for their second jab - and we realise there is no record of the first, or now, when people have started looking at their apps, because they need a vaccine passport.

He added that at some large sites as many as 50 patients a day had been affected by recording errors - many of which were only starting to come to light now.

Patients are being advised to contact their general practioner if the app does not offer them the correct pass.

However, NHS England has since said a new platform 'to support people with specific queries about their COVID-19 vaccination records' will be launched within weeks.

Vaccine passports compulsory from September

The Government plans to make vaccine passports compulsory in clubs from September in a move to curtail the growth of the virus - but the proposal has not been welcomed by all.

Hospitality chiefs, MPs and civil liberties campaigners have already slammed the idea.

There are also growing fears that the hospitality sector, which is looking to recover from months of closure, may fall victim to a staffing crisis thanks to the 'pingdemic', with hospitality staff not exempt from self-isolation rules.

But on Sunday there was a dramatic fall in positive tests reported with a total of 29,173 new cases - adding to evidence the country may be emerging from the current wave.

This marked the fifth consecutive day that cases have fallen.