This year's flu jab

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  4 October 2018     13:28349821
  #1      
  Just rang up my surgery and told that the earliest they can see me is in a months time as they are only doing them on a Saturday morning. Usually I get an appointment within two days.
• Guest 2884

  • Registered: 24 Sep 2018
  • Posts: 2
  5 October 2018     17:54349875
  #2      
  fyi - it's also possible to get them from Tesco (Whitfield) and other pharmacies - you can probably get an appointment within a few days if needed.
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• Bob Whysman

  • Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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  5 October 2018     19:34349878
  #3      
  I was offered a flu jab by my surgery, when I picked up my prescription last week, and booked it for 09.30 today.
  
  My wife and I went in at 09.20 and were both given the jab and left the surgery within a couple of minutes; usually they are only booked for Saturdays but this year there was a choice of either Friday or Saturday.
  
  Result!
  Do nothing and nothing happens.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  5 October 2018     20:27349882
  #4      
   Bob Whysman wrote:

  I was offered a flu jab by my surgery, when I picked up my prescription last week, and booked it for 09.30 today.
  
  My wife and I went in at 09.20 and were both given the jab and left the surgery within a couple of minutes; usually they are only booked for Saturdays but this year there was a choice of either Friday or Saturday.
  
  Result!

  
  
  
  That is my normal experience but without your Mrs I hasten to add. Noticed on the last couple of times I have gone in to hand in or collect a prescription that there is a queue for the receptionist and most of the chairs are taken so the surgery has either taken on a lot of new patients or the GPs have cut their hours back.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  6 October 2018     12:14349895
  #5      
  St James surgery is only doing Saturday mornings for the jab and their waiting lists are 6 weeks. Boots advertise a free NHS flu jab for those eligible so I went on their website and ploughed through a questionnaire until they asked for my "advantage card number", as I don't have any store cards they cancelled my appointment.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,931
  6 October 2018     13:04349897
  #6      
  Therefore it is only free if you are a regular customer so a bit of a cheeky way to get to try and get new information, considering I usually only use the shop to buy Boots Christmas vouchers I will not bother.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  3 November 2018     10:52350809
  #7      
  Got down the surgery earlier and all seats were taken upstairs and downstairs. I don't know how many treatment rooms they had going but I was out of the door within 15 minutes, as it takes about 3 weeks to kick in I hope there is not a sudden epidemic.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  16 November 2018     15:35351397
  #8      
  This explains the delay.
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46226393
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  16 November 2018     19:06351401
  #9      
  had mine done at the doctors last week.