to expect my dr's surgery to provide vaccinations when it is convenient for me?

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I am having to take a morning off work and my son out of nursery for the morning because our dr's surgery only does vaccinations at a monthly Tuesday morning clinic. I asked whether the practice nurse or a doctor could give the vaccination at a more convenient time and they said no. My ds is already late with this vaccination because normally I teach on Tuesdays and I have had to wait until term finishes to get an appointment when I can take time off work. I want him to have the full vaccination programme but they don't make it easy. What are other people's experiences?

I'm lucky because I don't work Mondays so our surgery has been pretty flexible about changing appointments so I don't have to take time off.

Doctors surgeries in general don't seem to be that aware of the whole woman at work thing. My pre natal classes were scheduled at 2-4pm which meant I had to take the whole afternoon off to go to them. Yes I know that I was entitled to do it in work time and had they been scheduled at a semi reasonable time such as 9-11am or 3-5pm then it would have been easier for me to go to them. Interestingly they held the last one at 6-8pm so the "husbands and partners could be there"

Ok rambly off topic. If there was only one or two jabs then yes a bit unreasonable, but they seem to get more pricks than a pin cushion these days so if you have gone back to work in the middle of this then I have sympathy for you.