The UK's speedy COVID-19 vaccine rollout: surprise success or planned perfection?

By Sarah Schiffling, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management, Liverpool John Moores University
Liz Breen, Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone (DHEZ), University of Bradford, Reader in Health Service Operations, University of Bradford

The UK’s COVID-19 response has been criticised severely. Britain is among the countries with the highest number of recorded COVID-19 cases and deaths. But with its vaccination campaign, its fortunes seem to have turned.

The UK is one of the world’s front runners when it comes to vaccine coverage. On December 8 2020, it became the first…

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