Most regions now have higher targets and a nationally mandated increased scope of their usual target population, this year to include at risk groups and over 50s (which crossover to some extents).
Short answer there is greater demand and this is being earmarked for general practice.
An, so far, not much increased supply. Great.
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Just ate humble pie and rebooked for next friday under a different name
Will probably wear my trilby,french mac and tache disguise
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I guess it’s a tight call between waiting as long as possible before they start growing the stuff, so they have the best chance of it matching the actual flu, and leaving it so late that come Sept/Oct it’s still at the seedling stage and unable to satisfy the sudden 100% demand.
I called my GP a few weeks back and, as is now becoming habitual, they didn’t have any of the under-65’s type, and couldn’t be sure when they might get any. So I booked in with the same pharmacy chain as for the last two years. It’s free because I’m in an ‘at risk’ group. The idea of ‘at risk’ seems too complicated for the GP supply system to have got its head (for want of a better word) around though.
VB
All the GP patient management systems identify ‘at risk’ groups, mainly because as practices they receive top ups for doing certain things for them. Whether their definition of ‘at risk’ matches fully with others is a different debate.
The usual localised problem IME is that the person responsible for procuring the correct amount of shots lives in the CCG and is usually innumerate and in no rush to get them ordered and in place early enough.
When they eventually get hold of the vaccine they will contact me to book an appointment for the shot, so I think there isn’t a problem with the definition. I will then explain that I’ve actually had it already, at the pharmacy, and that if they check they’ll find they’ve been informed of that. And that’ll be that for another year. I guess the pharmacy have stocks because it’s a money-spinner for them, so the procurement person’s job’s on the line if they cock up. If only this were true for anyone in the wholly unaccountable CCG.
VB
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Not wholly but agree, largely. Same result so…
I get my Flu jab on the 6th Oct at the Docs.
Never a good idea to needle the needle …
Digging around in an archive that a horrid draggy-droppy code and components GUI has, err, excreted.
Mmm, the “xml screenshot”. I’ve been doing this a long time but that’s a new one even on me.
Lot simpler than that.
PharmaUSA can’t make enough money out of it (yet), so it ain’t happening (yet).
Go Murcan Med Inc.
Mine’s booked for 29 October but I suspect they’ll have run out by then.
Sodding Covid. We’re in lockdown.
Friday Diveday… hopefully not the last one for a while…
The long video is the approach to the Podsnap minesweeper, then around to the Blackpool Illuminations UFO which is at 5m, midwater.
I’m chuffed with the final photo, quite an atmospheric one of our approach to the Diving Bell
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Golfing with @FatCuntTroller +2 at Westerham.
View of 18th hole from the tee
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No, it’s really not that on this specific occasion.
Waste of time on the phone,just deleted it
