NewWave Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Mines Wednesday and I'm 61 y/o.I'm so pleased! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I might cry! Everything sets me off so...NewWave Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Mines Wednesday and I'm 61 y/o.> I'm so pleased! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbiscuits Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 intexasatthe moment Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I don't doubt that is not news ,but it is now> possible to go online and check whether the system> has reached your level of eligibilty .If so you> can book a slot > > https://www.nhs.uk/book-a-coronavirus-vaccination/do-you-have-an-nhs-numberThe program has now officially been expanded to group 6 (underlying health conditions) but this website only goes to group 5 (65+). Perhaps group 6 still need a GP invitation? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
taper Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I'm early fifties, but on the flu jab list (mildly asthmatic). I'd read that wouldn't get you in group 6. But I've just been invited for a jab at the TJC via my GP. So am guessing they are using the list in Southwark. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr De Soto Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Perhaps I've been offered the covid jab because I got the flu jab, but I am Group 8 and have no underlying conditions, so am I the innocent beneficiary of an admin loophole? I don't know anyone else my age who has been offered the jab without either (a) being a frontline health worker (b) being around when there were spares or © having underlying conditions. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbiscuits Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I think Tessa Jowell centre have been contacting all their patients over 50 (or maybe 55). I can only assume they have excess capacity and don't want to waste any doses.Otherwise... as taper says, I do not believe that asthmatics or flu jab recipients will necessarily be in group 6. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dresswaves Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I'm in group 6 due to being a carer but I believe that puts me after all the over 65's in group 6. Haven't heard from my GP yet. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin68 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 The news reports huge (comparatively) lack of take-up in London, as certain groups are invited but choose not to come. It makes no sense for facilities to sit idle (or Pfizer vaccines to go off) - so I'm not surprised if 'early' jabs are being offered. As the intention is to vaccinate down to age 18, eventually, and certainly to 50 by May, people may be getting it early, but not who otherwise would never get it.What really upsets me is to read about low take-up amongst front-line health professionals, in hospitals and care homes. Who were all (or almost all) offered the vaccine in the very first waves. This even includes hospital doctors, I heard on R4 this morning. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbiscuits Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Penguin68 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> This even includes hospital doctors, I heard on R4> this morning.Unfortunately I am not surprised. I know a few doctors. Most are smart, but certainly not all... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 dresswaves Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I'm in group 6 due to being a carer but I believe> that puts me after all the over 65's in group 6.> Haven't heard from my GP yet.I'd recommend you give 119 or your surgery a ring and offer to take up a last minute appointment (if you are able) because it seems unfair that I'm offered, as a non carer, and you are not! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmacca1 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 I ran my surgery twice in the last 6weeks and offered myself up for any no shows or late in the day left overs, as i live 10 mins around the corner but was told to wait my turn. Did the same with St Thomas and they invited me the next day as a 66+. Job Done. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxib Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Had a text from tessa jowell doctors today offering me a COVID jab, having it Thursday. I?m 53 and diabetic. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutOfFocus Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 A double whammy- phone on Sunday at 1400 offering 1430 - done - letter om doormat on Mondays with a leaflet 65 - 2 weeks. Some health conditions. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianr Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 NewWave wrote:---------------> Mines Wednesday and I'm 61 y/o.> I'm so pleased!I'm pleased for you too. Your mentions of carrying on doing public-facing work during the non-shutdown periods, and the worry of public transport commuting to the west end along with the non-mask-wearers, and your colleague's positive test, ... all rightly made me feel at least a little uneasy myself.I think people have already warned about not thinking that whatever partial immunity you get sets in overnight. Somewhere there sre the Israel figures showing the amount of time it took for reported infections to drop off there post-first-jab. ISTR, after seeing one set of results, setting myself three weeks leeway after my own jab before feeling on the safer side, though even now I'm still taking the same precautions. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/covid-almost-2m-more-people-asked-shield-england?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other800,000 more people to be offered priority vaccination (and asked to shield). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/276010-booking-a-vaccination-slot/page/2/#findComment-1490679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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