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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.

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

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! :-( :-(

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.

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 :-|

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.

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

By the way, I noticed that on the list was a pharmacy near my brother - 27 miles away from us. After I booked our appointments (for this morning, so first jab done), I rang my brother and told him.

I also told him that I'd heard of a 73-year-old walking into a pharmacy not far from my brother and being offered a jab.

My brother rang the pharmacist's shop which is a five-minute walk from him. They told him to come in today and he was due to get his at 4 pm.

When I first rang the number on the letter the person on the other end also said the Nightingale Hospital was the nearest, followed by a village pharmacy a few miles further away - then by my brother's local pharmacy. When I queried nearer venues, she told me that they only dealt with big vaccination centres - which clearly they did not.

If you don't get a call from your doctor, it may be worth ringing your local pharmacy.

When our surgery rang us, after offering us a time slot, she then asked if we were OK to get there.

We could drive, but if not the District Nurse is doing home visits.

Well sorry to leave it so late in answering you all.

Just rang our surgery again and got through to a high and mighty receptionist.

Told her why I was ringing and she said **Hold on she would look on the website for Covid vaccines**

She came back and told me I am not on the list for vaccine but she would have to get in touch with her manager.

I said I had got the letter for the vaccine and told her that I had been on the website and there is no way I can get to where the list says I have to go.

So Have to wait for her to ring me back for more information.

The surgery don't do HOME VISITS unless you are on your death bed.(one of the nurses told me that about 4 years ago.)

So looks like those over 70 and with COPD won't get the vaccine where I live.

told her the government have said all over 70's will have the vaccine before 15th February. but think our surgery are reading the instructions a different way. She said **NO so long as you have the letter before the 15th then they have done their job.**

Sorry Sue but I don't think much of the receptionist at your surgery. :-(

Ours are brilliant - well informed, friendly, helpful and, if they don't know the answer, will ring back later or get someone else, such as the GP, to ring back.

can you talk direct to your doctor, or another receptionists
i never ring mine in the morning, a right madam but the afternoon one couldn't be more helpful

No chance of talking to a doctor they are just as bad,

Well after fighting for 3 days have eventually got an appointment for Saturday PM.

Can't wait to get it done.

Hope all goes well Sue <3

Great news.....are they coming to you, Sue :-)

well done sue
good luck

Well done.

Got my letter today but as it is our village surgery that is doing jabs I shall wait for them

To amuse myself I did go online to see what was on offer.

Hmm. Only 15 miles or so. But I am not a crow. So it would either be about 21 miles plus road toll. Or about 30 miles using the roadworks ridden motorway!

No I have had to book a taxi .
Hopefully it won't snow here Saturday.


It's in the big health centre 8 miles away.

We finally got a text to book ours this morning. It is the local GP hub, but not the surgery in our town, it is twelve miles away, but that is not a problem for us. We used two IPads to do the bookings at the same time, we coordinated pressing the buttons. It gave me the choice of one on Sunday, but not OH, so we opted for Monday. The nearest time we could get them was twenty minutes apart. We have a forecast for loads of snow on Monday, so I hope we can get there and the centre will still be open.