On 31/03/2021 15:11, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:30:52 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 31/03/2021 12:11, T i m wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:19:41 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

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Ok thanks. Please let us know how you feel over the next 24 hours. ;-)

Will do - so long as I live :-)

John ... John! Wake up! ;-)

Who me, must I?

phew

Still here apparently... arm feels like it is a bit bruised, and very
slight temperature -

One you can feel or you have measured?

Very casually - pointed my IR thermomemter at me bonce - it normally
shows about mid 34s on the forehead, but was hovering high 35s

but other than that, so far so good.

Gdgd. ;-)

On a more administrative note / question. I took a call from an agent
working at our local surgery (I'm not sure if she was working there
temporarily to do that sort of thing, she sounded like it) and
accepted the booking for the Mrs to have her first jab at a local
medical centre a couple of miles away (within the next couple of
days). She also said I could have mine whilst we were there, sent both
of us booking confirmations by TXT then rang later to cancel mine as
she had offered me one by mistake (too young, toy boy etc). ;-)

I get the impression there are a number of overlapping systems here. I
first got text from my gp with a link to a accurx web site. SWBMO did
not get that (don't think they have her mobile number) but got a call
from a real person at the surgery a couple of days later. Few days after
that, dead tree letter from NHS with link to nhs.co.uk to book on that.
Then last friday a text from NHS with link to the same web site promoted
on the letter.

I am expecting a carrier pidgin to turn up next!

(still you can't say they are not being diligent!)

Some weeks later and with the jab rollout going well, I received a
letter from the NHS offering me my jab and to book it online. The
nearest place being 5 miles away (but likely crap parking) and the
next being 7 miles away, with the potential of parking outside (the
concern re parking being finding a place at all and if I had to leave
the Mrs 'circling', the likely pushback to such responsibility). ;-(

Yup can't see SWMBO going for the suggestion she takes herself over
there tomorrow :-) Still on the bright side, our GPs surgery is slap
bang in the middle of a large car park so that is easy. (although in
"normal" times I often park on the street 4 mins walk away and save the
£1.20 they want for the car park (which used to be free for 20 mins, and
then cheap for another 30 mins - now you can only buy an hour plus)

Now, I'm more than happy to drive the 7 miles and back, especially if
that frees up something more local for people no so mobile but I was
wondering what the deal is re those being offered it via their surgery
and those getting a more formal / central / NHS invite?

I think if you do it via the nhs web site you get to choose a "local"
vaccination centre - but not necessarily your GP.

Still at least the 7 miles will give you chance to put some charge back
in the battery.

Listening around, it seems some have simply either just turned up at
the local places, got in the queue and been given their jab (or not,
the guy in the queue when the Mrs was getting her second jab suggested
he didn't have an appointment but she didn't know how he got on (and I
was 'hovering' round the corner in the car)), or requested a jab at
somewhere 'local' simply because they CBA to travel further?

Some of the local ones seem to have an "informal" reserve list[1] - so
you can leave your details, and they might call you at short notice one
night if they are going to have shots spare at the end of the day that
would otherwise have to be binned. Some of the staff at one of my
clients have managed to get theirs well ahead of their cohort that way.

[1]I get the impression there is no formal policy on this since you know
it's going to cause whinging regardless of how sensible the practice
would see to the "reasonable man".

The place I had mine was just a High Street pharmacy that had been
partly converted into a jab centre by adding some seats and screens in
the general shop area?

Yup I think our local one has done similar.

--
Cheers,

John.

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