Autumn Booster ? 2023 edition [please change vote as you get jagged]
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I’ve got flu jab booked for next week but they haven’t mentioned a covid jab.
elbows
Well-Known Member
If you qualify and are registered with a GP in England, havent heard anything and want to see if a suitable time & place is available via the standard online booking system, go here:
www.nhs.uk
I dont qualify but was able to guide my mother through the process using this site today.
Book, cancel or change a COVID-19 vaccination appointment
Book, cancel or change a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online.
www.nhs.uk
I dont qualify but was able to guide my mother through the process using this site today.
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Yesterday, I had quite the palaver to book my appointment.If you qualify and are registered with a GP in England, havent heard anything and want to see if a suitable time & place is available via the standard online booking system, go here:
Book, cancel or change a COVID-19 vaccination appointment
Book, cancel or change a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online.
I dont qualify but was able to guide my mother through the process using this site today.
{Previously I had asked both my GP and the group practice in the local market town that did the last one ... no and not yet came the answers}
Looked at the option of a "walk-in" centre, most were more miles away than I wanted to travel.
Then the 'use your NHS number' route kept chucking me out at various points.
I tried the 119 line but it cut me off and the wait time was in excess of 25 minutes due to the volume of calls ...
So, I went back to the NHS booking site and used the "don't know my NHS number" route.
That involved a lot more filling in boxes but at long last I was able to make a booking - at a pharmacy within 10 miles.
krtek a houby
Sail hatin'
Due a jab next week. Last time the nurse had very shaky hands and it took a few seconds longer.
Voley
🐀
Had a very similar experience yesterday. The app was groaning under the strain in the day, I think, it just kept stopping working completely. 119 had a 20 min waiting time so I tried the app again in the evening and got booked in for Thursday.
I'm still not entirely sure if diabetics qualify so I chose 'I think I might be clinically vulnerable,' and it booked me in. Said they might ask me some questions about it on the day.
This is just for Covid. If they want to give me the flu jab too when I'm there, all good as far as I'm concerned.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I think they do qualify. I based this on the latest official Greenbook, chapter 14a. This chapter waffles on about the entire history of the vaccination programmes so far, but when I get to Autumn 2023 recommendations it includes:
And table 3, which is for people over 16 years old, includes:
tony.c
Well-Known Member
In June there was a tv report saying vulnerable people who had not been contacted to get the Spring covid jab should attend vax centre to get one. I have Type 2 diabetes and had not been contacted though I usually get an invitation. I went along to the local vax centre but I was told that Type 2 diabetes was not included in the 'clinically vulnerable' category unless I had a confirmation letter from hospital consultant.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Many thanks for this. I was under the mistaken impression I had to wait for an invitation! Now booked.If you qualify and are registered with a GP in England, havent heard anything and want to see if a suitable time & place is available via the standard online booking system, go here:
Book, cancel or change a COVID-19 vaccination appointment
Book, cancel or change a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online.
I dont qualify but was able to guide my mother through the process using this site today.
Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
We were both stabbed today. 'flu and Covid (Moderna spike).
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Is it that time again already? Blimey.
I think I actually qualify agewise now and not just blood issues. Hooray.
Surprised the doctor didn't mention it when I went in last week (she was discussing my latest bloody test results).
I think I actually qualify agewise now and not just blood issues. Hooray.
Surprised the doctor didn't mention it when I went in last week (she was discussing my latest bloody test results).
Voley
🐀
Thanks for digging that out, elbows. Not immediately apparent is it?
I booked mine on the strength of this:
UPDATE, 30 AUGUST 2023: The flu jab and Covid-19 booster vaccine programmes start date has been moved forward to the 11th September 2023. This is a precaution due to a new Covid variant being identified. People living with diabetes aged over 6 months are included in the eligible group for these vaccines. Read our guidance below on Covid booster jabs for more information.
Coronavirus vaccines and diabetes
UPDATE, 30 AUGUST 2023: The flu jab and Covid-19 booster vaccine programmes start date has been moved forward to the 11th September 2023. This is a precaution due to a new Covid variant being identified. People living with diabetes aged over 6 months are included in the eligible group for these...
I struggled to find anything on the NHS website.
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Having mine tomorrow.
Flu jab 2 weeks time
Flu jab 2 weeks time
elbows
Well-Known Member
If last time around was spring, the spring booster campaigns have become far more restricted, mostly just people over 75, care home residents and people classed as immunosuppressed rather than the broader at risk list of conditions. They wont make the autumn campaigns that restricted unless the risk picture substantially changes in future years.
tony.c
Well-Known Member
Yes, we should get invited this time. I would qualify anyway as I am over 70. But I'll wait until I get the invitation.
8ball
Now containing implausible plot armour
Change of plan - getting it done on Saturday at same time as flu jab.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Flu and Covid jabs begin here ( Portugal) at the end of September
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
The last booster messed up my Auto Immune Hepatitis and I steered clear of the Spring Vaxx because of this.
Will be seeing my consultant next week and will ask what he thinks would be best. I'm pretty much still cocooning in so far as I can so I probably wont be meeting people over the winter.
Will be seeing my consultant next week and will ask what he thinks would be best. I'm pretty much still cocooning in so far as I can so I probably wont be meeting people over the winter.
tony.c
Well-Known Member
I just got the invite. Booked in for vaccination on Thursday afternoon.
Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
Sometimes you go fully armed in preparation for battle, then...
We got an appointment for Mary, but couldn't get one for me.
The plan was I would go along, and try and blag a vaccination at the same time as Mary.
We got to reception, Mary explained her condition, and that I didn't have an appointment.
'No appointment? Don't worry, we'll do you both. Can't have you catching Covid and giving it to your wife. Come through both of you.'.
Wind ------> <---------Sails.
Edited to add:
We got there fifteen minutes early, so we were called through, stabbed, and out before Mary's actual appointment time.
Got a sore arm. It is the 'flu one... maybe. Which vaccine comes in a pre-filled syringe? that was the one in the 'sore' arm, well more a bit of discomfort really. Less than 2 on the man pain scale.
We got an appointment for Mary, but couldn't get one for me.
The plan was I would go along, and try and blag a vaccination at the same time as Mary.
We got to reception, Mary explained her condition, and that I didn't have an appointment.
'No appointment? Don't worry, we'll do you both. Can't have you catching Covid and giving it to your wife. Come through both of you.'.
Wind ------> <---------Sails.
Edited to add:
We got there fifteen minutes early, so we were called through, stabbed, and out before Mary's actual appointment time.
Got a sore arm. It is the 'flu one... maybe. Which vaccine comes in a pre-filled syringe? that was the one in the 'sore' arm, well more a bit of discomfort really. Less than 2 on the man pain scale.
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