Corona Virus Treatment

No letter here yet.

 

There was a massive queue around the car park and along the road. There were 5 injection rooms on the go so we kept moving luckily the rain held off, it took us 50 minutes in the queue but very quick once we got inside. Must be more people taking it this year.

 

Worse thing was the traffic with lots of seniors driving very slowly trying to get as close as possible to the surgery. Looks like many hadn't driven since before lockdown. When we arrived there had been a bad accident blocking the car park with police, ambulances and recovery trucks. Looked like a slow motion head on crash, with all the poor parking the road was difficult to negotiate.

 

My friends in Manchester, both in the vulnerable age sector, were phoned by their Doctor's Surgery giving them a date for the Flu jab , but when my friends pointed out that they were away in Conway in Wales for 3 days on a booked holiday break over that period and asked for a postponement, they were told that that date would not be postponed but cancelled.
You would have thought that the Surgery would have some flexibility knowing, from their own practising experience over the years, that some people would not be able to accept that mandatory/fixed date and been prepared to have a alternate date to offer especially to those who were in the age group that makes a Flu jab a priority.

 

Good afternoon it will be a free for all for the flu jab this year as always,one date Oct 9th 9am until 1pm for about 1000 people,the same for the last 3 years,nowhere to park,long queues I shall use my local chemist as I always do

 

And that, is what my friend told me over the phone, is what my friend told me he was going to do. But it does seem to me that the very people in some of our GP Surgeries who are supposed to be serving the community are becoming more restrictive and, in effect, less caring.

 

I wish you well with getting an appointment - the chemist that Mrs C works in has stopped taking bookings now as they cannot get sufficient jabs.

 

I was asked to make a telephone appointment with my GP - - to do an asthma check, over the phone....

Needless to say, I haven't bothered.

 

Redbridge Metropolitan Police Service posted this:

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Yes, you are reading that correctly - they have fined a small business £1000 for taking a customer's money at 10pm on the dot, and handing the food to the customer at 4 minutes past. Food, not alcohol, drugs or weapons. Food.

 

Hello @Fat Controller I thought I would give the chemist a ring and I was informed that due to increased demand they have no vaccine in stock and wouldn't be getting any,ah well I could always try my local Tesco's but I haven't been in a shop for 8 months