Trying to book a booster, since I am just over 6 months from my last jab - originally jabbed under group 6 because of long term meds. Apparently anyone group 1-9 should be able to get it now, regardless of age (late forties). Not eligible for online booking so tried the phone number (119) - 6 and a half minutes of unskippable answerphone options (you can only press the number once the full message has completed, even if you want option 1..), just to get the same outcome from the phone operative - GP hasn't supplied the details, call GP etc. (even harder to get through to them than the jab booking service, but that is another rant).
So here's the thing - why are they even trying to collate all of the GP vulnerability data etc for a second time, when this was already done the first time; the date of your original jabs should be able to serve as all the evidence required to make you eligble for the booster, since I couldn't have had my second jab in May if I wasn't in an eligble group. This would make the whole process much simpler, with effective zero downside (so someone that isn't eligble slips though - who cares?), and with the upside that people who's GPs have cocked up yet again won't be put off.
Anyway, I gave up of course but the online booking will open up for all 40+ from Monday according to the lady on the phone so I'll do it then. Latest evidence suggests a drop from 1/2 chance of symptomatic infection 6+ months after 2nd jab to < 1/10 so worth it I think. It's all over the place here (3 kids in my oldest boys football team tested +ve Monday after he played with them Sat, and the (previously healthy, mid 40's) dad of a girl in my youngest's class died of it last week..).
So here's the thing - why are they even trying to collate all of the GP vulnerability data etc for a second time, when this was already done the first time; the date of your original jabs should be able to serve as all the evidence required to make you eligble for the booster, since I couldn't have had my second jab in May if I wasn't in an eligble group. This would make the whole process much simpler, with effective zero downside (so someone that isn't eligble slips though - who cares?), and with the upside that people who's GPs have cocked up yet again won't be put off.
Anyway, I gave up of course but the online booking will open up for all 40+ from Monday according to the lady on the phone so I'll do it then. Latest evidence suggests a drop from 1/2 chance of symptomatic infection 6+ months after 2nd jab to < 1/10 so worth it I think. It's all over the place here (3 kids in my oldest boys football team tested +ve Monday after he played with them Sat, and the (previously healthy, mid 40's) dad of a girl in my youngest's class died of it last week..).
My better half has just booked hers via NHS online and is going to a centre nearby next week. Booking efficacy varies around the country and between urban and countryside areas with countryside / rural towns being much better than the big urban centres.
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