General Chat

sue
drs surgeries do do home visits
i didnt get a letter but surgery rang me and came the next day
might be worth checking as they know you are disablled

Sue, when I got my letter the nearest place was a Nightingale Hospital several miles away but I knew they were vaccinating in our town.

We hummed and haahd but eventually we decided we'd travel. Just as I was fixing up a time online, the phone went and it was our surgery asking us if we'd like a jab at our local hub (formed by two or three local surgeries). Yes please!

It made me think that a copy of the letter or a list of people receiving letters is also sent to the person's doctor or whether the doctor makes the list and forwards it to the NHS. Whichever way around, you may well hear from your own doctor soon if not within 24 hours.

We are still waiting for ours. Some of our friends ao the same age already have theirs. I guess that is what comes with having a surname at the end of the alphabet :-|

Our GP’s website also has a warning about this scam and about a cold calling phone scam where you are told you are eligible for the vaccine and asked to pay for it by giving your credit card details. Yeah, right. Sadly some people will hand over their card details in spite of all the warnings we get.

Sue in Yorkshire, when your doctor does contact you ask them if there is any transport scheme to get the disabled to their surgery. One of our local taxi firms is giving free rides to and from the surgery for people with mobility problems and I believe in other areas doctors will give the jab in the patient’s home.

I agree with Shirley.

This was on our GP's website on Monday last week.

Some of our patients, and some from other practices, have received emails supposedly from the NHS regarding their Covid-19 vaccination and asking them to click a link in the email. DO NOT DO THIS. This is a scam. When you are invited for a Covid-19 vaccination we will contact you directly, by phone if possible, or by letter asking you to contact the Practice. If we ever email a patient it would be to ask them to phone us, we would never put a link into the email.

Some people need locking up! :-( :-(

I was lucky my docs rang me and offered the appointment

Still not received a letter so maybe they were operating a different system

So many folks saying the postal system is very hit and miss so it’s not a good way IMHO

well got my letter at last to book my appointments for Covid.

You won't believe i but nearest centre is 25 miles away. no chance of getting there being disabled.

So will have to wait for our doctors to ring me.
bloody taxi down to the surgery.


UPDATE.6/02.


Just got back from having the vaccine injection.

What an inefficent team that are running the clinic.

Had problem getting in the taxi at my place.(not been out for over a year so legs not working right.)

Gets out of the other end with help from 2 blokes.

Pays taxi driver and walks with aid of my walker to queue to go in to fill form in.
Filled form in with help of a young lady.

She starts taking me round to get inside the health centre.and a younger woman comes over tells her to give me the form as I can go in on my own.1st

Young lady said that I needed help in walking in the the centre/ which I was appreciative of.

Got inside and told by another person that I needed to walk round 3/4 boundaries.

So as usual told her politely that I hadn't got the energy.so just walked straight over to the 2 women running the other name taking.


Nothing was said then next person told me to go to middle person as she was free walking towards a person that was waving her arms in the air above her head.

Sat down taking my left arm out of my coat sleeve.

And bang the needle was in .2 seconds and it was all over.

She was a doctor and she said that I would receive my second appointment in a few weeks by letter.

So finished and over and done with.


Cost of taxi £11 there and £11 back.

Cost of a taxi to the other centre would have been £32/£35 there and £32/£35 back home

Just glad it's over with.

Astrazenica vaccine.