COVID Vaccine !

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Adam4868

Legendary Member
Your Dad need's not to anything they will contact him when they are able to offer him one locally. Either via his GP or Hospital if he's due an outpatients appointment. As for having had covid they don't know enough yet about the vaccine. It will become a lot more clearer with more real life vaccine data.
To be honest he's made a great recovery as wasn't in the best of health.Very tired and impatient but grumpy with me so doing well.Aftercare from the hospital is almost non existant unfortunately.Im pretty sure my mum had it aswell but wouldn't go and get a test !
 
Location
London
Good news - starting to roll out via GPs from this week apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55295702

Since this is the currently approved vaccine I assume that these will be GPs with the low temperature storage facilities which are apparently required. Hoping that one of the GPs will be in my mum's town.

If anyone sees a detailed list please post.

Would also be interested in posts from anyone who gets the vaccine through a GP or has a relative etc who managed to get one.
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
The reason for the around, is it's debated, there are numbers that are lower and higher than that. As said a non-coincidental point on this, a fairly sizeable number of people with severe asthma are under 16. The usual quoted figure for severe asthma is usually slightly higher than that, but it's a not a large proportion of group 4.

One of the issues here is making a comparison with the flu jab. It's a very bad idea for politicians to make a link between flu vaccine eligibility and covid-19. There is a lot of overlap, but it's going to cause the government way more issues than it's worth doing. Vulnerable is also a parlance and political word, so mix up clinically vurnerable, clinically extremely vulnerable, vulnerable and so on in political and medical landscapes and you're in big trouble.

This and other post's are spot on the numbers are massive and the time frame is not as neat and tidy as politicians are keen to push.
To back up the severe asthma points yes they need to be part of this to give an example Mrs 73 is caring for someone covid + aged 55 using covid risk score they have a covid age of 88.
 
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lazybloke

Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
Location
Leafy Surrey
Good news - starting to roll out via GPs from this week apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55295702

Since this is the currently approved vaccine I assume that these will be GPs with the low temperature storage facilities which are apparently required. Hoping that one of the GPs will be in my mum's town.

If anyone sees a detailed list please post.

Would also be interested in posts from anyone who gets the vaccine through a GP or has a relative etc who managed to get one.
IIRC - At point of use it can be stored at more conventional temps - for a few days only.
 

midlife

Guru
GP’s get the thawed vaccine as far as I know and have 3.5 days to get it into arms. It’s GP surgeries with space staff and capacity that get it first as far as I know. Any vaccine left over on day 3 can be used for nhs staff.
 
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kingrollo

Guru
Good news - starting to roll out via GPs from this week apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55295702

Since this is the currently approved vaccine I assume that these will be GPs with the low temperature storage facilities which are apparently required. Hoping that one of the GPs will be in my mum's town.

If anyone sees a detailed list please post.

Would also be interested in posts from anyone who gets the vaccine through a GP or has a relative etc who managed to get one.
Well it's feckin cold in Dudley this morning - they might not need the fridges !!!
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
The GP roll out will be small and limited which practice get's it will be down to a local level. As with Hospitals GP hubs are being set up giving GP's two days notice of changes has not helped leading to some having to pull out at the last minute.
Namely being confirming that the 15 minutes after a vaccination now has to observed so even more staff have to found.
The system which is used for all vaccinations that everyone know how to use and they started using for covid.
Some clown now thinks it a good idea to now start using a totally different one for covid. Expecting GP's to get trained in two days.
The big issue is the Hospital IT can't talk to GP's IT so they have no idea who's had the 1st one so don't know who to call up and when.
So it's going to some time to get things going as quick as they'd like. Staff are working hard to sort things out and will find a way like they always do

So it's going to be some time to get things going as quick as they'd like. Staff are working hard to sort things out and will find a way like they always do. All we can do is wait and carry on with things as they are so scrub up, mask up , ventilate. Keep your distance ,keep other's safe and stay safe. When it's time get the vaccine you will soon know and please don't phone your GP or Hospital they really have a lot going on right now. A real big please don't take it out on the first staff member you see it's not down to them. They already get a hell of a lot verbal and physical abuse as it is.
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Just eat pot noodles and monster munch - the chemicals in that will kill covid !
Nice to see government guidelines finally improving.
 

Chromatic

Legendary Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Good news - starting to roll out via GPs from this week apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55295702

Since this is the currently approved vaccine I assume that these will be GPs with the low temperature storage facilities which are apparently required. Hoping that one of the GPs will be in my mum's town.

If anyone sees a detailed list please post.

Would also be interested in posts from anyone who gets the vaccine through a GP or has a relative etc who managed to get one.

My dad got a call from his GP last week offering the vaccine, he's booked in for the first jab Thursday this week and the confirmation letter arrived today. Has to go to a different practice for it though, which was explained during the call last week.
 

Bazzer

Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
Refusing to read a disclaimer to a blind person and denying them service as a result sounds illegally ableist. Please urge them to contact PALS at the hosting hospital trust because that should not be.
My sister sought clarification today before I fired off an email. Apparently outside care homes, over 80s must be able to be self mobile. Carers would mean more people in the building than are allowed (6!). Sound bollox to me, but my sister says to let it be for a few days.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
My sister sought clarification today before I fired off an email. Apparently outside care homes, over 80s must be able to be self mobile. Carers would mean more people in the building than are allowed (6!). Sound bollox to me, but my sister says to let it be for a few days.
I thought this hinged on someone refusing to read something out to a blind person. I didn't realise your mum was not mobile. Still seems a bit borderline IMO but maybe closer to it than it sounded.
 

Bazzer

Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
I thought this hinged on someone refusing to read something out to a blind person. I didn't realise your mum was not mobile. Still seems a bit borderline IMO but maybe closer to it than it sounded.
She is self mobile, but only for short distances. A wheelchair is better from the carer's point of view, a) because the vaccination centre is not the GP surgery but a much larger building and b) because she is blind she will not know where to go as she cannot be accompanied by my sister.
Also the issue of reading the disclaimer has still not gone away. The person my sister spoke to was non committal about whether a member of staff would read it to our Mum. My sister is of the view we have to get her in the door first. When arrangements are made for her injection this will be clarified.
 
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