Does anyone work for a GP Surgery? Covid Pass related…

Does anyone work for a GP Surgery? Covid Pass related…

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DJFish

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5,964 posts

270 months

Sunday 24th April 2022
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Hi all,
I work in the marine sector supporting UK sub-sea telecoms infrastructure and during the covid crisis I have been assisting our seafarers in obtaining covid jabs in order that they can safely continue to work.
Most of them have been able to obtain covid documentation in the UK or in their home countries which allows them to travel in the course of their work but I have one individual who is a UK citizen living in Thailand, and who has an NHS number and has been vaccinated in the UK, but who is experiencing difficulty travelling internationally to our ships as he only has a letter from a UK NHS trust NHS trust confirming he's had his jabs.

What he really needs is the NHS covid pass, but he can only get that if he's registered with a UK doctor's surgery.
So I’m looking for a helpful NHS surgery who will register my guy for the sole purpose of him obtaining electronic proof of the jabs he has already received courtesy of the NHS?

My company would of course be willing to pay an admin fee for this exercise, which is the result of an unusual and extremely inconvenient set of circumstances which has not been accounted for in the roll out of the covid pass programme.

For info we have made numerous enquires about this with the NHS covid helpline, as well as contacting NHS policy makers & the Dept. of Transport via the UK Chamber of Shipping, The NHS trust where he got his jabs & private medical practices who have all told us the same thing, my seafarer "just" needs to register with a UK NHS practice and he can go online and get a covid pass, I just need to find one willing to put him on the books for long enough to do so.

He can use the company address in Essex or I'm even willing to say he lives with me if that would make things easier, the poor guy just needs a covid pass to enable him to turn up at an airport and get on a plane so he can go to work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

jackh707

2,131 posts

163 months

Sunday 24th April 2022
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He needs a UK address, and he could register.

I would suggest try the last UK GP practice he was registered at, or try the one you personally are registered at and say he lives at your household.

Worth a punt, they may reasonably say no.