Walk-in vaccination clinics where 12-15 year olds may attend at the Tessa Jowell Centre

[Renata Hamvas]

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Covid Vaccination no 1 or 2 for a 12-15 year old?

If your 12-15 year old child has had a first vaccine over 12 weeks ago (and is therefore due a second) or hasn't had a jab yet, there are walk-in clinics at the Tessa Jowell Centre on East Dulwich Grove (37 bus goes there). They are 9am-2pm on Sundays and 9am-6pm on Thursdays. Your child should not have a vaccine if they have had Covid in the last 12 weeks. A parent/guardian needs to attend with the child. There was no queue there yesterday after school hours. Older Teens and adults can also have vaccinations there. It is also possible to book via the NHS website, but the Tessa Jowell centre doesn't show up as an option on there.

[Cora]

Do you know why the Tessa Jowell centre never shows up on the NHS booking website. We live 5mins walk away and none of us have been offered it as an option?

[Cora]

This morning my 15yr old and partner have travelled to St Thomas's to get his jab - obviously it would have been much easier to use this walk-in if we had been told about it in advance.....

[ianr]

Cora wrote:

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> Do you know why the Tessa Jowell centre

> never shows up on the NHS booking website.

TJHC is a GP-led centre rather than one of the clinics set up by NHS central. A little more here: https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?32,2241143,2247457#msg-2247457.

[Nigello]

Cora - why not complain to the centre itself, and why not check with them ahead of time to see whether your required services are offered? You only live a short way away, you say, so you could easily pop in. (The NHS is a great service but it can't provide a bespoke service or let us all know its options at all times.) I have had great service there but with any big, impersonal organisation I don't take it as read that things will go smoothly unless I do a bit of homework first.