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Post by stagebyte on Dec 13, 2021 1:33:51 GMT
For those struggling to get appointments at GPs . Might be worth looking online for pharmacies - a lot in out area doing them plus Tesco. We’re not in London and have only ever had to wait a couple of days for each stage of the vaccine.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2021 8:58:01 GMT
For those struggling to get appointments at GPs . Might be worth looking online for pharmacies - a lot in out area doing them plus Tesco. We’re not in London and have only ever had to wait a couple of days for each stage of the vaccine. Definitely - none of my jabs have been at a GP, in fact I don't think I've ever been offered a slot at a GP surgery. Not sure why anyone would wait for a GP appointment! |
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Post by Rory on Dec 13, 2021 9:54:58 GMT
For those struggling to get appointments at GPs . Might be worth looking online for pharmacies - a lot in out area doing them plus Tesco. We’re not in London and have only ever had to wait a couple of days for each stage of the vaccine. Definitely - none of my jabs have been at a GP, in fact I don't think I've ever been offered a slot at a GP surgery. Not sure why anyone would wait for a GP appointment! I agree. I've never been offered a vaccination at the GP, despite phoning up to enquire. I got the booster at a local pharmacy with no wait and no hassle whatsoever. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2021 10:32:54 GMT
This is what happens when you underfund and disregard a vital medical service for years before covid.
Short Term pay doctors nurses more new and existing . Like double
this will attract more to the service and allow the 'old' ones a bit of a 'breather'
turn viable locations into medical centres.
have long term increase in NHS budget
have meetings with Europe leaders and have a European Covid approach
give incentives to businesses to shut in Jan and refurb
have money funding for businesses that need to lay off workers.
Have a 5 year NHS plan
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Post by christya on Dec 13, 2021 10:39:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2021 10:47:06 GMT
I'm glad I booked my booster a couple of weeks ago. I'm trying to ignore the fact that my appointment for my second vaccination was cancelled without explanation a few days before it was due.
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Post by talkingheads on Dec 13, 2021 11:17:20 GMT
Not only can I not book my booster, lateral flow tests are not available anywhere. None on the Gov website, none in local pharmacy. Is that perhaps something they should have checked before his announcement last night?
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 13, 2021 12:11:48 GMT
Not only can I not book my booster, lateral flow tests are not available anywhere. None on the Gov website, none in local pharmacy. Is that perhaps something they should have checked before his announcement last night? Perhaps try your local library? In Oxfordshire you can pick up lateral flow tests from there. And yes, can’t help feeling some clearer instructions in the televised address might have helped. |
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Post by maggiem on Dec 13, 2021 13:07:04 GMT
On Tuesday, I had to have a cyst removed from the back of my right shoulder. District Nurse coming at the weekend to check the wound and dressing (no stitches now!) meant that I was going to miss the pre-booked booster appointment in Wigan. I got online and found they were doing a walk in at the Market hall in Bolton, so I jumped on the bus there and got the Pfizer jab only an hour after my original time.
I've been lucky, and appreciate it immensely. good luck to everyone trying to book theirs.
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Post by Jon on Dec 13, 2021 14:13:49 GMT
This is what happens when you underfund and disregard a vital medical service for years before covid. Short Term pay doctors nurses more new and existing . Like double this will attract more to the service and allow the 'old' ones a bit of a 'breather' turn viable locations into medical centres. have long term increase in NHS budget have meetings with Europe leaders and have a European Covid approach give incentives to businesses to shut in Jan and refurb have money funding for businesses that need to lay off workers. Have a 5 year NHS plan No offence but it's a lot complicated than just pay people more, build more medical locations and shut things down. |
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Post by lynette on Dec 13, 2021 14:22:11 GMT
It is a very complicated system to reform. I always think that suspending the uni fees for nursing and Medicine would encourage people to enrol and train. If we want all nurses to be uni educated then they have to loosen the reins a bit. ( personally I would favour being able to move up the profession within a non uni training ) They could do it on condition that graduates worked only in NHS or say 5 years. Or something along those lines. They made it very hard for applicants to Medicine to actually train, needing highest A level qualifications and so on, quite a few years a go. We saw it coming at the time but who had the influence to do anything about it? Now with this and the uni fees, no wonder we ask for doctors and nurses from abroad. I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but if we apply what we know to the future now we could alleviate problems down the line.
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Post by craig on Dec 13, 2021 15:32:16 GMT
Thank you for this. I just got boosted at a walk in centre I found from this post - in and out within 30 minutes. The organisation was awe inspiring. I'm 39 and have been waiting ages to be eligible to book online. Managed to book last night for the 22nd December at a vaccination centre miles away. Relieved to have had the jab sooner, well in advance of Christmas socialising, and closer to home. |
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Post by digne on Dec 13, 2021 15:47:18 GMT
www.reddit.com/r/GetJabbed/ is great for finding walk in centres and wait times - I got my booster on Thursday thanks to that subreddit, when I'd only been able to book for January online.
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Post by londonpostie on Dec 13, 2021 15:57:21 GMT
It is a very complicated system to reform. I always think that suspending the uni fees for nursing and Medicine would encourage people to enrol and train. If we want all nurses to be uni educated then they have to loosen the reins a bit. ( personally I would favour being able to move up the profession within a non uni training ) They could do it on condition that graduates worked only in NHS or say 5 years. Or something along those lines. They made it very hard for applicants to Medicine to actually train, needing highest A level qualifications and so on, quite a few years a go. We saw it coming at the time but who had the influence to do anything about it? Now with this and the uni fees, no wonder we ask for doctors and nurses from abroad. I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but if we apply what we know to the future now we could alleviate problems down the line.
Some may not know the idea was to clear a path and encourage already qualified staff from other EU countries to come here, especially those in countries that weren't in the euro and whose currencies became increasingly desperate. The wheeze was to take advantage of poor countries, who had trained their own staff, and to depopulate those countries of health professionals as best we could - represented by our liberal meanstream as a huge success for multiculturalism.
Another consequences was, of course, to hold down NHS wages, which in turn resulted in UK-trained staff leaving in vast numbers, and/or migrating to other English-speaking countries:
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Post by NeilVHughes on Dec 13, 2021 17:39:45 GMT
Seeing a lot of cancellations due to cast infection.
Comedy of Errors is my first casualty but can see cancellations becoming widespread over the next few weeks.
Best to check before you travel.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 13, 2021 17:45:41 GMT
For those struggling to get appointments at GPs . Might be worth looking online for pharmacies - a lot in out area doing them plus Tesco. We’re not in London and have only ever had to wait a couple of days for each stage of the vaccine. I've tried looking up Boots & Superdrug's websites and both of them say you have to book via the NHS website. No pharmacy sites have been showing up when I've been checking the NHS website so I can only assume there are no pharmacies in my area doing vaccinations. When I put my postcode into that the first 3 results are all marked "No boosters". The nearest next nearest site is Letchworth, which is half-way to London! It's impossible to get a walk-in booster jab anywhere in Cambridgeshire. |
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Post by G on Dec 13, 2021 18:38:55 GMT
Had my booster earlier today at a walk-in in London. 5h queue! (I had a day off work). Should probably have checked the link posted earlier ( www.reddit.com/r/GetJabbed) or done more research before going there, so that was a bit stupid of me, but I'm glad I did not lose patience and got my booster. My family in Italy will all have had the booster by the time I go back (assuming that will still be possible), and it's a relief that I've been boosted too. The centre I went to had large delays for bookings (which of course they prioritized), so I felt strangely about them also having to deal with so many walk-ins. It did not seem likely that they would be able to process all walk-ins up to the end of the queue, but hopefully they did. |
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Post by talkingheads on Dec 13, 2021 19:28:27 GMT
Apparently being 27 means I can't book a booster or go to a walk in.
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Post by G on Dec 13, 2021 19:36:50 GMT
Apparently being 27 means I can't book a booster or go to a walk in. Definitely you can go to walk-ins (or maybe only some walk-ins?). Bidborough House by King's Cross where I went to today was taking walk-ins of any age, they didn't turn me away and I'm 28. |
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Post by tr252 on Dec 13, 2021 19:41:19 GMT
Guys Hospital in London was also accepting all ages for Walk In’s yesterday when I got mine done.
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Post by firefingers on Dec 13, 2021 19:49:26 GMT
I have a feeling it'll be based on density of age groups within the local population. London has a younger population than say Eastbourne, so can drop down to 18+ quicker. Irritating that the the age limits aren't easily be found.
I won't be able to get my booster until the Scottish government accept my second jab from England, which despite hours on the phone, uploading documents and QR codes I'm still vaccine passportless. I lateral flow nearly daily for work so that gives me my covid pass but the government seem to have run out of tests.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2021 2:57:10 GMT
This is what happens when you underfund and disregard a vital medical service for years before covid. Short Term pay doctors nurses more new and existing . Like double this will attract more to the service and allow the 'old' ones a bit of a 'breather' turn viable locations into medical centres. have long term increase in NHS budget have meetings with Europe leaders and have a European Covid approach give incentives to businesses to shut in Jan and refurb have money funding for businesses that need to lay off workers. Have a 5 year NHS plan No offence but it's a lot complicated than just pay people more, build more medical locations and shut things down. yes but its a lot better then what Boris is doing |
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 14, 2021 8:02:08 GMT
I have total sympathy for people with needle phobias, I am not going to minimise that - however I totally see it as an excuse that anti-vaxxers would use, which I have no sympathy for. I wouldn't be standing on a edge of a cliff too, I hate heights. I also hate gunshots and big bangs, PTSD from an incident that happened when I was child, even though I know that bangs are totally harmless, I still feel very queasy, this happens in the theatre sometimes, but I still go for the greater good. I would say that staff in ICU will be able to tell if someone has a needle phobia, also history from their GP. If they haven't charge them for their care. Maybe an oral vaccine will be available in due course It is not right to deny responsible vaccinated urgent medical care, because of irresponsible anti vaxxers. The linked article is saying that vaccines can be administered by a jet of air instead. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10306785/New-needle-free-Covid-vaccine-given-jet-air-ensure-wide-ranging-protection.html |
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Post by og on Dec 14, 2021 10:22:27 GMT
Thank you for this. I just got boosted at a walk in centre I found from this post - in and out within 30 minutes. The organisation was awe inspiring. I'm 39 and have been waiting ages to be eligible to book online. Managed to book last night for the 22nd December at a vaccination centre miles away. Relieved to have had the jab sooner, well in advance of Christmas socialising, and closer to home. Doesn't the vaccine/booster typically have 2-3week incubation period? Seem to be hearing a lot of boosters 'in time for Christmas', but I think it's a bit too late for that now. New year perhaps. This booster initiative has had some motion since September yet the real roll out has been another classic slow response from Government, dozing at the wheel. Delayed knee jerk reaction to Omicron, they should have had this in motion regardless of a variant well before now. |
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Post by talkingheads on Dec 14, 2021 11:24:25 GMT
Of all the ridiculous measures mooted recently, this is the silliest. I can hear the conversations now
"Yes Tracy I appreciate you've had seven Jager Bombs and are in the middle of doing the Macarena, but can I see your Covid pass?"
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