Why has the eligibility for covid jabs been changed?

[Inbox]

This was mentioned on the bbc this morning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28q5gqvppo

I was expecting to get both flu and covid jabs but found I wasn't eligible for the latter so what has actually changed, has covid-19 disappeared? I think not but you can actually pay privately for a covid jab now which is new so assume the NHS changed the rules to save money.

[towser44]

They'll change them again before the year is out, they'll have loads of vaccinations left and will offer them to lower age groups.

[markymarkthree]

Oddly i used to eligible (having had a TA a couple years ago) and at the front of the que with the 80+ brigade, but not any more.

[Skodillac]

The recommendations for who should get it on the NHS were changed by the JCVI ( https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committ... ), so it isn't the NHS being tightwads. They're just implementing recommendations.

Private jabs have been available for a couple of years, I paid for one last year and am booked in for a private booster next week.

[anyoldcardave]

towser44 said:

They'll change them again before the year is out, they'll have loads of vaccinations left and will offer them to lower age groups.

I doubt that, it is very obviously cost cutting and not life saving based, pushing more people to go private, all those private health adverts are no coincidence in my mind lol, get fed up with waiting for anything and everything then pay yourself, last two procedures I needed were referred to private hospitals, I think they are working together to push private care .

[cb31]

Sounds sensible, why waste precious NHS money on something that is no longer a problem?

[abzmike]

cb31 said:

Sounds sensible, why waste precious NHS money on something that is no longer a problem?

It is still a problem from the perspective of hospital beds being blocked up by elderly folk with covid, so if that can me reduced then seems sensible.

[anyoldcardave]

abzmike said:

cb31 said:

Sounds sensible, why waste precious NHS money on something that is no longer a problem?

It is still a problem from the perspective of hospital beds being blocked up by elderly folk with covid, so if that can me reduced then seems sensible.

I know a school in Kings Lynn was closed very recently because of a Covid outbreak, the number in beds will get less with no vaccine, some may die, that will keep numbers down.

[Ashfordian]

abzmike said:

It is still a problem from the perspective of hospital beds being blocked up by elderly folk with covid, so if that can me reduced then seems sensible.

The jab is now more of a placebo than a vaccine.

The slow and deliberate removal of those eligible demonstrates this.

This is a managed unwinding of the fear the medical community and Government created in 2020/21

[Llandudno]

Four years ago it was life saving, essential, and some people got sacked for not having it. Now it’s over 75s only. Since Omicron, did covid really change that much?

[ukwill]

abzmike said:

It is still a problem from the perspective of hospital beds being blocked up by elderly folk with covid, so if that can me reduced then seems sensible.

I believe elderly folk can still get it for free, along with a few other at-risk groups.

[Paul Dishman]

Ashfordian said:

The jab is now more of a placebo than a vaccine.

The slow and deliberate removal of those eligible demonstrates this.

This is a managed unwinding of the fear the medical community and Government created in 2020/21

Nonsense on stilts

[Voldemort]

Had mine today. The pharmacist said I'm no longer eligible but I said I had been invited because I'm regarded as at risk due to the stem cell transplant I had. Got jabbed.

Oddly, I'm not eligible for a shingles jab...

I can't make it make sense either.

[Riley Blue]

Voldemort said:

Oddly, I'm not eligible for a shingles jab...

I can't make it make sense either.

According to the NHS you should be, pester your GP:

https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/shingles-vaccine