Is The Regular Flu Jab Still Available?

[sandyRoe]

About this time of year I usually get a letter from my GP asking me to make an appointment for a flu jab. Are they available yet?

[emmie]

ours was or is i believe, i got a calls, in fact a call and a tx, asking to me have a flu jab a week or so ago, i turned them down

[aelmpvw]

had mine a couple of weeks ago sandy

[sandyRoe]

Thank you both. I'll phone the surgery later today.

[Tilly2]

I've had mine but the local chemist has a big sign in the window saying, 'No flu vaccine available'.

[gingejbee]

I'm surprised that you haven't had the jab already....it's been available for several weeks. The earlier you have it in the "season", the better.

[Vagus]

We had ours mid September.

[dannyk13]

Had mine a month ago.

[roopower]

I'm over 65 and have slight asthma, had mine at the drs about a month ago.

[emmie]

hopefully sandy will tell us how he got on

[woofgang]

sandy they are in very short supply this year. Round me (and in places where I have friends) they were a little late arriving and uptake has been much bigger probabably due to the covid thing. If you want to get one you need to start finding one NOW. I checked Boots website yesterday and they still aren't offering appointments.

[sandyRoe]

I phoned the surgery and was told there was a shortage of supplies and more are expected near the end of the month and they'll be in touch then.
I was in the city centre this morning and called into Boots to see if I could buy the jab. They're out of stock but are expecting more supplies next week.

[Bobbisox1]

Had ours weeks ago Sandy but that was outside of lockdown

[emmie]

good luck with that sandy

[gingejbee]

^You don't need to buy it at Boots...they (like many other pharmacies) give it (if you are entitled) under NHS provisions.

[Cloverjo]

Down here, I can’t go anywhere health-related without being offered a flu jab, and I’m only 50.

[bodeker]

The flu jag was taken over by the local health board because it was thought to be a big job this year with covid and more people wanting it , well they could not have made a bigger mess of it if they tried. The youngest people got it first and all the usual places you usually get it ran out of stock . Would have been better leaving well alone .

[woofgang]

yes in the UK this year people 50 and up can have it free (well NHS paid for) for the first time. Healthy under 50s had to buy theirs as usual so I am not sure how the young people got theirs first? Bodeker do you live in the UK? So far as I am aware in the UK over 65's get a different vaccine from the under 65s so I am not sure how the "young people getting it first" would affect us old'uns anyway.

[ladybirder]

Do you have an Asda near you Sandy. I got mine at my local one rather than queue round the block at the doctors.
https://www.asda.com/about/instore/pharmacy/flu

[jourdain2]

Yes, we had ours early in October.

[tinkerbell23]

Flu season is Dec and peaks Jan & Feb.... info out by NHS Scotland saying not to panic if you havent had it yet x