to be trying to find menigitisB vaccines and can't in the whole of surrey?

[Worriedlisa]

I want to get my 2 children vaccinated.
We had a scare over the weekend which has been awful and I've been trying to find private clinics offering the vaccination and failing miserably.
Anyone know of anywhere currently doing them?
Boots is out of stock until June :-(

Is it true that one dose of the vaccine doesn't really offer any protection?

I was happy waiting when u thought it might but have been told since that it only lasts for a few months.

Absolutely shitting myself now.

Novartis are not part of GSK they did an asset swap deal where GSK got the vaccines arm of them can't remember what GSK gave them. The supplies of vaccine are being protected for the NHS programme to be fulfilled hence the shortage of private supplies. Any decent private clinic would reserve both vaccines at booking in for the first. Any more than £150 (and even thats a big mark up) is profiteering.

We had ours done at Boots on literally the day they canned private jabs. Due the next dose in a few weeks, but Boots do hold onto the second dose so should be fine.

The pharmacist said that as far as she knew it was temporary, and hopefully by the summer they should be back up. Try your local big Boots stores and ask, they may be able to tell you the latest.

It will work out at 200 per child from memory.

Has anyone actually found any in London? I can't locate any anywhere!

You definitely can have them a couple of months apart missus, that's the interval both boots and a private clinic told us when ours had the jabs.

[[https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/28407]]

Here - manufacturer recommendation is that the interval between primary doses should be 'not less than 2 months apart'.

Advertising on MN, and charging more than double the going rate to profit from others desperation. Ignoring manufacturer recommendations to limit supply to those who've already started the course. Which bit of 'global shortage' did you fail to understand?!

That's enough for me.

Not sure why you all think it's dreadful that the price increases with a shortage. It's capitalist economics! You live in a capitalist society! Private medicine is very expensive. My friend had to pay over one hundred dollars in the USA for a short course of antibiotics over twenty five years ago.

As for the shortage, well, few manufacturers worldwide are prepared to make vaccines. There was a court judgement some years ago now that made vaccine companies pay for damages caused by vaccines even though they could not have foreseen the problem. It wasn't anything the companies had done wrong, we just hadn't uncovered the science to understand enough. There was also another case which meant that vaccine manufacturers were also successfully sued even though no one could prove their products harmed people. Thus companies have steadily pulled out if vaccine manufacture over the years and we have less capacity than we might.

Profiteering tends to be frowned upon even in tooth and claw capitalism. And yes, there are reasons for the shortage. So what? They are limiting supply so that those who have started the course get to finish it, rather than (at the extreme) supplies going to those able to afford 1000s for it.

Doesn't Boots give them for £90 per dose? So I'm not sure how charging £400 isn't profiteering.

£400 for 2 doses?? Can't believe this supply and demand crap. It's a disgrace. I paid £232 for 2 doses and thought than was extortion. Paid beginning of last year. Also children under 1 have to have 3 doses so that's presumably another £200?

We had our DS done in November/January. We were told 2 months between doses is fine so whichever poster was told it wasn't don't panic. We paid £300 in total and even in Jan the private Dr we saw said he only had enough for people's second injections and was refusing new apts and running a waiting list to make sure all the kids had their second jabs. That's in Essex.

The vaccine has been available for over a year now and was a much lower price 8 months ago when I had my children done than now. People are panicking now because of the mass hysteria over a few high profile cases. Your children have already been unprotected for over a year and are no more likely to get Men B now than they were a year ago when you hadn't even considered the vaccine.

People have explained to you already. Just leave it. You've advertised your extortionate services. I'm sure people can get in touch if they want to.

They are being restocked nationally in June. This is what my doctor told me.

Yes supply and demand works in healthcare too, just like in other jobs. I regularly get offered double my rate of pay to go to work extra, which sometimes I do and sometimes I want the time off so don't. I guess the clinic has to get staff to go in and give the vaccine? They might have to pay over the odds to get staff to work.

I guess if this private clinc has to fund staff to drive down to London, hire a room, fund hire of equipment in case of things going wrong, pay insurance, pay travel costs - it's not just the cost of the vaccine is it?

At least you now know that you can put a price on a child's life...