Vaccines and Other Musings...

[eighthobstruction]

....a friend in the 'know', has encouraged me to ring GP practise to put myself in line for any cancellations....

[Frances_iom]

....a friend in the 'know', has encouraged me to ring GP practise to put myself in line for any cancellations....

you must be lucky - my GP practice queues phone calls until you give up trying - I usually resort to walking round and dropping a letter thru the letter box marked specimens

[eighthobstruction]

you must be lucky - my GP practice queues phone calls until you give up trying - I usually resort to walking round and dropping a letter thru the letter box marked specimens

....I haven't tried yet....I have had enough trouble with their NEW website (evereything these days seems to be logo/icons)[on the basis surely that - if you've got a logo it improves your fomo mojo]....+ the Nhs 111 pit/void of being led up the garden path for 20minutes, only to be told what you already knew.....

[Cockney Sparrow]

I heard (? some official I think) in a press report that anyone not registered with a GP should do so forthwith to be called for a vaccine.

In the context of running centres in sports halls/stadiums etc there is also reference to GPs running the sessions on a rota basis. I'm very sceptical that there is a meaningful database of ages and conditions above the GP surgery/combined surgeries level. It may be that data is extracted or forwarded upwards to CCGs and the NHS generally for various purposes but that may well be anonymised. Its GPs who are bridling at the telephone/Staff time on postponing appointments if vaccine delivery is interrupted and on the extension of the 2nd innoculation to 12 weeks.

Mrs CS is registered with a different GP practice. I had my flu jab on 3 October, having received the invite in the post three weeks before. Mrs CS didn't hear from her surgery (which is usually quicker off the mark than mine and delivers a better access to appointments) and ended up having the vaccine at the end of November.

[eighthobstruction]

....I shall bask in the knowledge that throughout my life my surname beginning with A has aided my speedy access to success....

[teamsaint]

....I shall bask in the knowledge that throughout my life my surname beginning with A has aided my speedy access to success....

I bet you are a September birthday, and tall with it.

[eighthobstruction]

I bet you are a September birthday, and tall with it.

....I must be long legged, as my friends always say I ride a high horse regularly....

[gradus]

....I must be long legged, as my friends always say I ride a high horse regularly....

An excellent and informative interview by Nick Robinson with Kate Bingham the former head of the Vaccine Taskforce on his Political Thinking programme. Good to hear some encouraging fact-based information about the UK approach to acquiring Covid vaccines.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04z203l/episodes/downloads

[teamsaint]

For those, like me, who aren’t too knowledgeable about vaccines ( not that you can likely be too knowledgeable) but are interested in discovering more, you might find this worth reading.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0338-x

A discussion that is understandable for the lay person from some eminent people in the field, discussing in particular the non- specific effects of both live and non- live vaccines.

[Serial_Apologist]

I heard (? some official I think) in a press report that anyone not registered with a GP should do so forthwith to be called for a vaccine.

In the context of running centres in sports halls/stadiums etc there is also reference to GPs running the sessions on a rota basis. I'm very sceptical that there is a meaningful database of ages and conditions above the GP surgery/combined surgeries level. It may be that data is extracted or forwarded upwards to CCGs and the NHS generally for various purposes but that may well be anonymised. Its GPs who are bridling at the telephone/Staff time on postponing appointments if vaccine delivery is interrupted and on the extension of the 2nd innoculation to 12 weeks.

Mrs CS is registered with a different GP practice. I had my flu jab on 3 October, having received the invite in the post three weeks before. Mrs CS didn't hear from her surgery (which is usually quicker off the mark than mine and delivers a better access to appointments) and ended up having the vaccine at the end of November.

I always get my flu jab at the pharmacy that deals with my regular bi-monthly prescription, so that action must be sent to be registered at my surgery, as they arrange for my prescription - so I shall sit and await the call: as of yesterday there are no notices re vaccination outside the surgery. Dr Sarah Jarvis strongly urged people NOT to trouble their surgeries/GPs asking when is it to be?

[oddoneout]

I always get my flu jab at the pharmacy that deals with my regular bi-monthly prescription, so that action must be sent to be registered at my surgery, as they arrange for my prescription - so I shall sit and await the call: as of yesterday there are no notices re vaccination outside the surgery. Dr Sarah Jarvis strongly urged people NOT to trouble their surgeries/GPs asking when is it to be?

Not least because it may not be offered at your GP surgery anyway? Here, there are vaccination 'hubs' - which include hospitals and large medical centres/GP surgeries. The latter will administer jabs to their own patients and also those from elsewhere as allocated according to the priority scale. More sites are being added but even so, as is to be expected in a large rural 'underpopulated' county, there are big gaps in coverage. To what extent that will change in the coming weeks remains to be seen. My home town is the 5th largest in the county and no surgeries are operational as hubs yet, although a nurse led practice in a village about 3 miles away is. I think part of the general issue is about space, as those having had the jab have to wait for 15 mins to check for adverse reactions - a requirement that caused some sites to be refused at very short notice, having got themselves organised according to the information they had previously been given which hadn't included that. What will be puzzling the townsfolk here I suspect is why our superb multi-function hall, done up at considerable expense some years ago and regularly used for blood donations, hasn't yet been mentioned as a hub, since it would seem to have everything going for it in terms of location, access, parking, and interior space. We shall see. The centre of the county is currently a big void. On the plus side two of the hospitals were early starters in the national roll-out as a result of which 40% of the 80plus age group have had their first jab - and a good few of those will have had the second as well, having ducked the revised schedule.