Responding to the announcement of the plan for COVID-19 booster jabs, the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, Saffron Cordery, said:

"The target to offer boosters to all eligible adults by the end of January presents a huge logistical challenge for the NHS, but given the potential threat from the Omicron variant, it is absolutely the right thing to do.

"There are many competing pressures. The health service is already operating at, and sometimes beyond, full stretch.

"But trusts have been at the heart of the vaccination campaign that has done so much to curb the threat from COVID-19, and will play their full part in expanding and accelerating the programme."