COVID Vaccine !

[Pat "5mph"]

My first two shots came up within a couple of weeks but the third one has taken much longer tho' it has now appeared.
Give it a bit longer perhaps.

Cheers: booster is showing now on the app .

 

[Mr Celine]

In October I was invited for the flu jag and third primary jag (not a booster) due to the medication I take putting me in the 'severely immuno-suppressed' category. The guidance in October (and still current) is that a third primary dose can be given at least 8 weeks after the second dose. However, the nurse at the vaccination centre insisted I had to wait 24 weeks after the second dose, so wouldn't give me the third.

Two weeks later I caught covid.

It's now a month since I recovered and I've still not been sent another blue envelope. I checked the NHS inform Scotland website but I can't book another jag online because I've had a flu jag.

I phoned the helpline. They can't book me a third primary jag. I asked about a booster instead but they can't book a booster because I haven't had my third jag.

Apparently I have to be re-referred for a third primary jag by my GP or consultant.

FFS

 

[Ajax Bay]

In case there's confusion from the weekend's communications (and I'm thinking back to the 15 Feb 2020 target to offer a first dose to all those in JCVI Groups 1-4), the 'booster' target has been brought forward by one month.
I have seen this mis-reported as 'everyone over 18 to get a jab by the New Year.
The previous target was to offer a booster dose to all over 18s (in England but other home nations expected to do the same) by end Jan. This implies a vaccination appointment within 28 days (of 31 Jan).
The new target is to offer a booster dose to all over 18s by NYE, implying a vaccination appointment by end Jan.
Whereas the previous version was entirely 'doable' this is going to be a massive ask: I hope that the effort will be balanced against the need to keep all the other parts of the NHS going full tilt. Still better than lock downs and the adverse effect on people's educational and mental well-being.
The average daily vaccination rate will need to be about 650k per day (averaged over the 48 days and taking into account down time during seasonal holidays). The rolling average is currently 458kpd.
Current totals are: first 51M, second 47M and booster 23M.
There's still a dribble (50+k per day) of first and second jabs including those for adolescents, but this rate will trend up.
There are still 4M who 'need' a second dose. I suspect jabs for 5-11s (5M) will be placed on hold till Feb half term, if the JCVI decide to recommend that the programme extends to that age cohort.

 

[fossyant]

Just how long can NHS staff keep this up - 4th jab soon (six months)

 

[classic33]

Just how long can NHS staff keep this up - 4th jab soon (six months)

Well, if I understood him correctly last night, it's going to be at least another year before routine appointments start up fully.
I wonder what people's reaction to being told they'll just have to wait will be. Hopefully they'll not take it out on staff.

 

[PaulSB]

One of my sons enjoys Supported Living in the Community. As with all care support SLC is in the grip of a staffing crisis. Knowing this I called his house to say I would organise his booster - four lads live at the house and taking one out means three staff are needed, two to remain at the house and one to travel with my lad. It's very rare for two staff to be present, three are like hen's teeth.

By coincidence my son was offered the flu jab today as well. Impossible to get an appointment locally for this. Hopefully one will be offered tomorrow.

On the booster front I was in position 10854 in the queue! Took about ten minutes to get to the actual booking page.

I tried various nearby centres to get offers ranging from December 14th to January 4th. Booked on for tomorrow at 8.50.

As an aside when entering your NHS number be sure to include the spaces 123 456 7890. I was rejected 4-5 times before I realised my error.

 

[DaveReading]

As an aside when entering your NHS number be sure to include the spaces 123 456 7890. I was rejected 4-5 times before I realised my error.

One wonders which of Boris's cronies got paid millions for designing such an inflexible system. All it needed to do was count 10 digits FFS.

 

[mjr]

One wonders which of Boris's cronies got paid millions for designing such an inflexible system. All it needed to do was count 10 digits FFS.

I'm sure I put it in in a block, but they may well have stripped out niceities like the system putting spaces back in, to increase system capacity during today's server-crashing surge.

 

[PaulSB]

One wonders which of Boris's cronies got paid millions for designing such an inflexible system. All it needed to do was count 10 digits FFS.

The NHS website has been there a long time and while I'm no fan of Bojo I very much doubt this one is down to him or his cronies.

 

[mjr]

The NHS website has been there a long time and while I'm no fan of Bojo I very much doubt this one is down to him or his cronies.

Isn't the covid vaccine booking web service another of those web apps so beloved of Dom which were made by new developers and then made to look like part of the main NHS website using simplified style guidelines and the trafficmanager.net Content Delivery Network? This is seriously cool stuff IMO but let's not pretend it is the old NHS website or that it has all worked perfectly: https://digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus/vaccinations/national-booking-service

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm sure I put it in in a block, but they may well have stripped out niceities like the system putting spaces back in, to increase system capacity during today's server-crashing surge.

Any nice form field formatting would be done by your browser and would have zero impact on capacity at their servers end.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

P.S. You can now order LFTs for home again.

 

[mjr]

Any nice form field formatting would be done by your browser and would have zero impact on capacity at their servers end.

My browser ignores most such orders from servers, for security reasons.

P.S. You can now order LFTs for home again.

Why order? Can still just collect them from libraries here as you ride past.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My browser ignores most such orders from servers, for security reasons.


Why order? Can still just collect them from libraries here as you ride past.

Maybe we don’t all ride past libraries on a regular basis 😂

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My browser ignores most such orders from servers, for security reasons.

The order isn’t from the server anymore than the rest of the web page is 😂