Unable to get booking for 2nd jab at Tessa Jowell or Lister?

Me and my husband are in the same position. Last time we got more than one text. We?d booked at Tessa Jowell when the text came through for the national booking. Wait a few days and you?ll probably get a text from Tessa Jowell.

Bear in mind that there are now a number of us due second doses sooner than expected as the government changed the spacing from 12 to 8 weeks. Those giving the vaccines / managing vaccine centres may well have had only a few hours extra notice on a Friday afternoon. Doses they have available are probably already allocated and getting more / finding staff to give them will need planning.

Also Southwark may well be lower down the priority list - cases are below the average for England, case numbers are so low locally they are suppressed on the interactive map so there may be priority to send available doses to areas with higher cases where there are those eligible who haven?t even had their first dose. Slow the spread elsewhere and save families losing a loved one against a couple more weeks of minimising contact seems reasonable to me. If your situation allows be patient. If your circumstances mean getting the second does ASAP is important to you take up the offer when you get it.

tomskip Wrote:

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> We are both over 50 and not had the option to get

> vaccinated at the Tessa Jowell centre for either

> first or second jab. We had to go a bit further

> afield (plenty of choices). We live in SE22. All a

> bit of a mystery!

I got sent two links one directly from the NHS that only had the hospital sites and later the same day a link via my GP which had Tessa Jowell and the Lister available. So I think it depends how you?re invited to participate.

I had to ring my GP and insist they send out an invite code. I'm not with Tessa Jowell normally.

GP insists it's not their remit, but I just stuck to my guns (politely) and received it whilst I was on the phone to them.

That seems a bit rich, given the centre replaced a 'community' hospital.

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> The Tessa Jowell supports a consortium of SE

> London GP practices. If yours isn't one of them

> you won't be asked there, I'm guessing.

first mate Wrote:

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> That seems a bit rich, given the centre replaced a

> 'community' hospital.

> Penguin68 Wrote:

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> > The Tessa Jowell supports a consortium of SE

> > London GP practices. If yours isn't one of them

> > you won't be asked there, I'm guessing.

I think that's the point.

Community/local/surrounding area... you see?

To clarify, (and happy to stand corrected) the Tessa Jowell (as I understand it) offers community wide services via Guy's and Kings out-services (e.g. the phlebotomy department) and is also the location of one GP practice. This practice is in a South East London (mainly Dulwich and surrounds) consortium of GP practices and these have chosen to offer their patients the Covid jabs at the Tessa Jowell, which has both the space inside and the parking to make this a good choice.

It is not a 'community hospital' as such (and to be honest in its last years neither really was the old Dulwich Hospital), but it does offer out-patient services on a hospital sourced basis.