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[Closed] The vaccination programme...wanna know how DAFT it can be....

DrP · 2021-01-22T10:28:06Z

So I've been involved in the programme - spent a day drinking weak team and vaccinating all the care home residents and staff in my local area (was quite fun actually..) We've got 3 sites set up locally to vaccinate the WHOLE of the local area (it's not GP practice specific... if you live 'here'... you'll get a vaccine at one of the sites..from any staff member/GP, when invited in for it..) There's been loads in teh press about "why not vaccinate 24/7" etc etc... the real reason is it's being delivered (locally) by GPs and their staff. Who are STILL having to provide all the usual day-to-day treatment and care. As well as, you know, eat and sleep and poop etc... Anyway.... I get an email today saying that one of the sites has had TWO EXTRA PFIZER CASES DELIVERED.... That's 1400 EXTRA vaccines that were NOT expected. That haven't had patients booked in to receive. That will perish in just over 72 hours. You literally can't make this madness up. So the team involved is now having to work like crazy to 'generate' an available 1400 extra patients to be vaccinated, as well as staff this additional process. I know GPs and the like get a lot of bashing, and i PROMISE you that if a single of those vaccines has to be binned, it will be me and my local colleagues hung out to dry for letting it happen... but it's important that people realise the absolute shambles of a system we are trying our best to work in!! DrP

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scaredypants

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we’ve had our supplies of vaccine slowly choked over the last few weeks

yup

Posted : 06/03/2021 5:29 pm

dantsw13

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Blokeuptheroad - I’ve had similar, but now we’ve started at a new centre at Eastbourne from 15 March. All I can say is hang in there. The scale of the project is huge and the admin of a charity is struggling.

Posted : 06/03/2021 8:24 pm

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