Anti vaxers blocking appointments
Discussion
I’d be interested to hear quite how “they” are doing so in any meaningful way. Is this BS click bait?
FWIW I had a vaccination arranged for Saturday (two days ago) afternoon but didn’t arrive. On the basis that a household member became unwell with covid-like (ie cold) symptoms overnight Friday into Saturday. I don’t want to expose my potential risk to innocent queuees and I don’t want to risk a vaccination while carrying the live virus. So I stayed at home. The online portal will not allow the appointment to be officially altered or rescheduled that late in the day. So I am part of that problem.
Incidentally the online portal states I must now contact my GP to reschedule. I doubt I will have any success contacting them without great luck. Anyone have any suggestions how I might rearrange a booster?
FWIW I had a vaccination arranged for Saturday (two days ago) afternoon but didn’t arrive. On the basis that a household member became unwell with covid-like (ie cold) symptoms overnight Friday into Saturday. I don’t want to expose my potential risk to innocent queuees and I don’t want to risk a vaccination while carrying the live virus. So I stayed at home. The online portal will not allow the appointment to be officially altered or rescheduled that late in the day. So I am part of that problem.
Incidentally the online portal states I must now contact my GP to reschedule. I doubt I will have any success contacting them without great luck. Anyone have any suggestions how I might rearrange a booster?
ARHarh said:
The vaccination center I have had 3 jabs in just put people through in the order they arrive, and they all had to be booked in so not sure it will make much difference. Also most have allowed walk ins at the end of the day if they have jabs left.
This. It’ll make no real difference, and any gaps will likely be filled by drop ins during the day.scenario8 said:
I’d be interested to hear quite how “they” are doing so in any meaningful way. Is this BS click bait?
FWIW I had a vaccination arranged for Saturday (two days ago) afternoon but didn’t arrive. On the basis that a household member became unwell with covid-like (ie cold) symptoms overnight Friday into Saturday. I don’t want to expose my potential risk to innocent queuees and I don’t want to risk a vaccination while carrying the live virus. So I stayed at home. The online portal will not allow the appointment to be officially altered or rescheduled that late in the day. So I am part of that problem.
Incidentally the online portal states I must now contact my GP to reschedule. I doubt I will have any success contacting them without great luck. Anyone have any suggestions how I might rearrange a booster?
Use eConsult if your practice has it.FWIW I had a vaccination arranged for Saturday (two days ago) afternoon but didn’t arrive. On the basis that a household member became unwell with covid-like (ie cold) symptoms overnight Friday into Saturday. I don’t want to expose my potential risk to innocent queuees and I don’t want to risk a vaccination while carrying the live virus. So I stayed at home. The online portal will not allow the appointment to be officially altered or rescheduled that late in the day. So I am part of that problem.
Incidentally the online portal states I must now contact my GP to reschedule. I doubt I will have any success contacting them without great luck. Anyone have any suggestions how I might rearrange a booster?
https://econsult.net/nhs-patients
How does it make a difference unless its a GP?
The place I went to assigns you a spot in the 15min window and you are one of probably 100+ they can do in that time period, there are 30+ jab technicians ready to jab away and you just go to one of those people, so an anti-vaxxer would have had no effect on the service.
You could turn up early/late and they would just add you to the queue and go through, the only time you cant is if you cant prove your 1st/2nd jab in the UK and it becomes difficult for you.
The place I went to assigns you a spot in the 15min window and you are one of probably 100+ they can do in that time period, there are 30+ jab technicians ready to jab away and you just go to one of those people, so an anti-vaxxer would have had no effect on the service.
You could turn up early/late and they would just add you to the queue and go through, the only time you cant is if you cant prove your 1st/2nd jab in the UK and it becomes difficult for you.
I mentioned a similar report from the Telegraph on another thread. The responses varied from they should be hung drawn and quartered, to it's just media b
ks, you can't bock book appointments.
I dunno either way tbh, as do none of us here.
I just assumed, if true, it was just some sort of social media organised action for as many as possible to book appointments at a location, Wembley stadium aiui, to try and soak up appointments. Well their efforts were in vain as walk ins more than took up all the slack.
There were comments that it had been tried at other locations, who knows, all the appointments are single ones, have you ver tried to book two appointments for the same place and time together? Even over the phone the call handlers can have difficulty, and need a second go.
However talking to other volunteers it seems that it can be quite common to experience as many as 30no shows out of a 200 jab session, so something needs fixing.
Thinking of normal appointments, locally if folks fail to no show more than a very few times they get busted from the treatment xchedule and go to the back of any queue. Clearly going to the back of a queue for a vaccination that you don't want in the first place isn't going to be that effective, though presumably could be locked out from booking online. Dunno.
Let's face it there are some right effing idiots out there. Example, anti vaxxer Piers Corbyn now under investigation for possible prosecution due to advising people to find out how their MP voted over restrictions and other covid issues, and if unhappy with their votes go and set fire to their offices. It's on film apparently. As someone else said, it takes something to be both the worst Corbyn and the worst Piers.
ks, you can't bock book appointments.I dunno either way tbh, as do none of us here.
I just assumed, if true, it was just some sort of social media organised action for as many as possible to book appointments at a location, Wembley stadium aiui, to try and soak up appointments. Well their efforts were in vain as walk ins more than took up all the slack.
There were comments that it had been tried at other locations, who knows, all the appointments are single ones, have you ver tried to book two appointments for the same place and time together? Even over the phone the call handlers can have difficulty, and need a second go.
However talking to other volunteers it seems that it can be quite common to experience as many as 30no shows out of a 200 jab session, so something needs fixing.
Thinking of normal appointments, locally if folks fail to no show more than a very few times they get busted from the treatment xchedule and go to the back of any queue. Clearly going to the back of a queue for a vaccination that you don't want in the first place isn't going to be that effective, though presumably could be locked out from booking online. Dunno.
Let's face it there are some right effing idiots out there. Example, anti vaxxer Piers Corbyn now under investigation for possible prosecution due to advising people to find out how their MP voted over restrictions and other covid issues, and if unhappy with their votes go and set fire to their offices. It's on film apparently. As someone else said, it takes something to be both the worst Corbyn and the worst Piers.
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