Covid Vaccination

[KGarrad]

Our surgery can only improve on the arrangements they had for the flu vaccine.   Very cold day in October and had the over 65 year olds plus, queuing round the car-park, down the side of the building, up the main street.  Took well over an hour to get to the back door !!  Then they ran out of vaccine so no one else could have a dose !! Absolutely disgraceful.

Sandra

I always have to make an appointment for a flu-jab.
Whether at GP surgery or at Boots.

[*Sandra*]

Hopefully those in the first 4 bands - key workers, clinically vulnerable and  over 70 plus should be vaccinated by mid-February.  Depends how successful they are with the roll out of the vaccine I suppose.

Sandra

[JenB]

Our surgery can only improve on the arrangements they had for the flu vaccine.   Very cold day in October and had the over 65 year olds plus, queuing round the car-park, down the side of the building, up the main street.  Took well over an hour to get to the back door !!  Then they ran out of vaccine so no one else could have a dose !! Absolutely disgraceful.

Sandra

Don’t you have to book a timed slot?
We do this, and I’ve never had to wait more than five minutes.

[*Sandra*]

Not for the flu vaccine -  this was for 65 plus - not even sure they had enough to vaccinate all the people in the queue.

If your surname begins with the following for you to attend. 2-3 pm surname A-G. 3-4pm-H-M. 4-5pm- N- T. 5-6pm U-Z.

then they cancelled the under 65 at risk flu walk in  clinic the following week !!!

Sandra

[heywood]

Ours is always by appointment and this last one, we had to enter by the main surgery door at the requested time and after the flu vaccination we were then escorted out through the back door.

My husband, though, had to queue outside for 10/15 minutes for the Covid vaccine and then it was a queue inside. This was a ‘hub’ for several surgeries. It was a bit of a fiasco!

[*Sandra*]

There was this one in Bristol  - Covid patients queue outside in the cold and sleet in Bristol

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/covid-vaccine-patients-queue-outdoors-4851179

Sandra

[chempat]

We had timed appointments for flu, but the set-up was so efficient they could have got through far more. 
In fact, husband was pm and I was am appointment times. We do have different surnames and age brackets.
He just waved his invitation letter, which we had to have with us, they did not check names just took the letter with the details on, and jabbed our exposed shoulders.
Medic was not aware of any shortage of vaccine at the date.

We had ours outside at a local school.  Really impressive.

[Viktoria]

Already there is a scam circulating ,elderly people being telephoned and  being told they can have the vaccination in their own homes !

It has just come on “ What’s  on in Ramsbottom “ by our MP. Jim Daly .

So glad the babies are coming on well.

Well The Hunchback of Ramsbottom ,that is me, pulled a muscle in my right shoulder last night ,reaching for something on a high shelf ,used little step,stool but needed step ladders really .
So ouch!
Better after a hot shower but could not turn over in bed last night.

When I did part of my training in a Day Nursery ,the little toddlers  used to be “ pottied” at regular intervals, their pants ,u pants and panties would be rolled up in a ball, stuffed up the back of their jumpers etc ,so they got their own clothes back,  well to see twelve or so little beings sitting on potties with seemingly , hunchbacks ,  singing Nursery Rhymes ————

A bright clear day here ,but very cold.

Putting the decorations away I thought, I have not pulled a cracker this year ,so feeling rather foolish I did, well do you know ,I immediately remembered the time I peeped in a cracker before Christmas ,about  75 years ago and the prize was a snitchy little Charlie Chaplin type moustache ,well, there was one in the cracker I pulled today , I mean ,how long must I be punished for that misdemeanour  all those years ago ?
“ Be sure your sins will find you out “, I slept with that over my bed for all the time I was an evacuee ,always some one watching me and watching over me considering our playground was a disused mine site ,with nothing safely capped off!
Baked a cheese and onion pie today ,will freeze half .
Had no cauliflower or broccoli but did have some dark green celery. It was really nice with the cheese sauce.
Got a “ round robin” letter ,from Belgian friends, well opened it today - It had been here for days .
Friends, went to Italy for a holiday ,got Covid 19, mildly and hired a car to drive  back to Belgium !Not a day’s drive !
Stops for  food, sleep etc
It beggars belief!

Hope everyone is well ,and keeps well,.
Well , kitchen to bed then me and hopefully a better night’s sleep .
Cheerio everyone.
Viktoria.

[Rena]

I don't quite know how the covid-vaccine appointments are organised in this area.  My friends who are about ten years younger than me had their appointment date sent to them before Xmas.

Maybe the lists are organised by alphabet; Their surname is at the beginning of the alphabet and mine is halfway through the alphabet.

Or maybe each GP surgery has to wait in line until its their patients turn. 

It certainly can't be organised by who has an ailment/ They're as healthy as a butcher's dog and I've got a saggy lung problem