Flu and Covid jabs locally

[Sue]

Does anyone know whether any local pharmacies are providing both flu and Covid jabs this year?

If so, can you have them at the same time?

[Jenijenjen]

I had both at the same time at Sheels Pharmacy in Nunhead, one in each arm. Very friendly and painless. I think Krystals in Nunhead may also offer both at the same time, they have in other years

Edited 8 hours ago by Jenijenjen

[KalamityKel]

Sojim pharmacy also offer both at the same time if you qualify

[beansprout]

Krystal is great - short walk or hop on a bus… not sure if you can have both a sametime… assume your surgery doesn’t do it…

[ianr]

Krystal do, as do the pharmacy at TJ.  You can check all available ones (from the following day on, I think) easily via the NHS booking online.  You can backtrack after checking any individual pharmacy's available offers and slots without  making any booking.  The system does cater for joint vaccinations, whichever type's path you start from.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/vaccination-and-booking-services/

Edited 3 hours ago by ianr

[Sue]

27 minutes ago, beansprout said:

Krystal is great - short walk or hop on a bus… not sure if you can have both a sametime… assume your surgery doesn’t do it…

My surgery does flu only, so it's easier to get them done together 

4 minutes ago, ianr said:

Krystal do, as do the pharmacy at TJ.  You can check all available ones easily via the NHS booking online.  You can backtrack after checking an individual pharmacy's available offers and slots before making any booking.  The system does cater for joint vaccinations, whichever type's path you start from.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/vaccination-and-booking-services/

Thanks, that's useful.

I've been to the Nunhead ones before, but they are either a long walk or two buses from where I live (I'm getting lazy, I know).

TJ would be best for me, if I can get a slot.

 

[ianr]

It seemed quiet there, exactly a week ago.  Expect a bit of preliminary form filling, even if you're not a walk-in.

I guess demand will be picking up now, following the recent report of signs of an early flu season this year.

Edited 2 hours ago by ianr

[Sue]

Thanks so much everyone, TJ booked for next week (in the adjacent pharmacy).

It was really quick and easy via ianr's link. The wonders of modern technology!

I first put in flu, but then it asks you if you want both at once.

Really hoping all goes smoothly. Last year I was quite unwell after the jabs (though it's just occurred to me that I could have been going down with Covid before I had them, though with no symptoms at the time of the jab)

Then I got Covid earlier this year anyway......  😭

I think the variants keep changing?

[ianr]

Pesky things, viruses, that's what they do.  My understanding's been that every year 'they' have to make a decision, early in the year, about what mix to make, to produce the mass of vaccine best suited to whatever configuration the viruses are likely to be in several months later. 

Not surprisingly, they can't always be making the best choice or something that seems like it.  I remember a few years ago, being mildly amused to find that year's statistics revealing, iirc, that the over-65's who'd received the vaccine got more flu than them as hadn't.

[Sue]

30 minutes ago, ianr said:

 I remember a few years ago, being mildly amused to find that year's statistics revealing, iirc, that the over-65's who'd received the vaccine got more flu than them as hadn't.

There's no logical explanation for that, surely?

Or at least, not directly related to having had the vaccine?

Unless  the over 65s choosing to be vaccinated were less robust than those who didn't, and so more likely to succumb to a flu variant which hadn't been included in the jab?

[Penguin68]

Correlation does not indicate causation. Maybe those who got themselves vaccinated did so because they were expecting, and were, out and about more, or were in already known risky circumstances, such as care homes. It is unlikely that the NHS would continue an expensive programme if fully analysed statistics contra indicated it 

[Angelina]

there should be information about boosting your immune system naturally - how to eat well - good nutrition, vitamins etc.

 

[Sue]

17 minutes ago, Angelina said:

there should be information about boosting your immune system naturally - how to eat well - good nutrition, vitamins etc.

 

I absolutely agree, but I take the  belt and braces approach!