Covid Vaccination

[smurfchops]

My sister is 80 and had the vaccine a week ago locally. I am 72 and wondered how long I would have to wait? We have the same doctor’s surgery. Thanks all.

[bednobs]

Utterly impossible to say. If it's any help in estimating the priorotygroups are on the .Gov website

[bobbinwales]

Theres a online calculator based but its only a guide.
Over 80s are one of prioritys.
72 is quite young. Maybe late feb/early March is my guess

[MartinMillar]

My MIL is 83 COPD and pacemaker and still not heard anything

[bobbinwales]

Your sister must have some underlying condition to get her done so quick. Most over 80s are due for Jan/Feb

[tiggerblue10]

My nan is 89 and was told some time in Jan.

[Maydup]

End of Feb, early March is my guess. But who knows, depends on the resources and the supplies.

[margarettom]

My friend is over 80 and was done before Christmas. No underlying health conditions and not in a care home. I think it depends on where you live and how organised your local health services are. I was very cheered by this news as I feel it will not be too long for me now, as we are with the same surgery.

[woofgang]

It does vary from place to place. Vacs have started here, but not where my friend's mum lives. as i understand it its because of the super cold freezer storage that the vaccine needs. Vaccination places need to be within distance of the storage.

[Canary42]

At 78 the calculator (for what it's worth) gave me early January.

[woofgang]

PS Once the Oxford vaccine rolls out then it will be easier once the procedures are in place to ensure that people get a second vac that is the same as the first one.

I have seen in the news (no link sorry) that there are also problems with getting folk back for their second vac for various reasons.

[New Judge]

All jolly fine. This is what worries me: in the Torygraph today was a letter from a retired GP who had offered his services to help with the vaccination programme. It went thus:

"I am a retired GP and attempted to volunteer as a Covid vaccinator through the approved website last week. This proved impossible.

I am relatively recently retired having relinquished by registration with the GMC in 2017. After completing large sections of the application form, I reached the section at the end entitled "Documents to upload or sign". I could go no further.

Some documents are obviously needed to confirm my identity for example, but I fail to see a necessity for documents proving attendance for Conflict Resolution, Equality Diversity and Human Rights, Fire Safety, and Preventing Radicalisation. The list contains 21 documents to be uploaded.

I defy anyone, even doctors currently working in the NHS to provide all of these.

The most likely explanation is that the department responsible for recruiting vaccinators has not actually considered this form. It will prevent almost every willing applicant from being recruited."

This is showing all the indications of becoming a first class shambles. The Civil Service is expert at it - there's nobody better. I said when the vaccine was first approved that the NHS should be allowed nowhere near the rollout programme. Time will tell whether I was right,

[New Judge]

^^^Apologies to the retired GP. She is female.