To not want any more blue vaccination reminders?

[SueBaroo]

I've told the surgery again and again that we're not having the MMR and could they please take us off the reminder list, and each person I've spoken to about it at the surgery has said, yes, that's fine.

So how come three more came in the post this morning, some three years after I first asked them to stop wasting paper?

it really irritates me when they do this. I phoned them and said quite curtly that if I wanted a bloody appointment I will make one. When ds is ill they can never see him which annoys me no end. (starts deep breathing)

YANBU
I am still getting reminders for DS2 despite the fact he has had the bldy injection!

I'm beginning to wonder if the surgery computer is actually artificially intelligent and militantly pro-vaccination, so it over-rules any instruction to bloody well leave us alone.

Oh, and yes yogimum, trying to get a flipping appointment is like speaing to that Little Britain woman. "Computer says no"

lol. Suebaroo. I could see a very smug look come over our receptionist when I told her we were moving. Will try to make good impression at new surgery lol.

can't you just chuck them in the bin and get over it?

Of course I can. And I do. But it's not the local NHS surgery's job to be sending me what is effectively junkmail when I have been asking repeatedly for three years to be taken off the reminder list.

i don't think they have a reminder list as such, just a system that trawls for children over a certain age that should be given certain things. maybe they should change teh system but it probably is not high on their list of priorities.

So, essentially, everytime I've spoken to a human being about it, and they've said that I'll be taken off the mythical 'list', they've been messing me about. Oh, that's alright then.

I agree, I doubt there is a reminder list -- more a query that says "find all children on the system with DOB between X and Y who do not have an entry on their record to say they have been given vaccination Z, and generate a letter to their parents"

The same thing happened to me. They gave up in the end but it's very irritating. It's tense enough for any mum who has made the informed choice not to vaccinate as it seems to generate so much ill feeling from others, so getting these reminders is unnerving as well as irritating.

My vacc reminders come via a child health department that is nothing to do with my surgery (although they tell me that an appointment has been made AT my surgery - it might be worth looking into that?

Or could you make a complaint in writing to the practice manager and ask for written confirmation that you won't be called again for MMR. Maybe they are now thinking that you've missed the booster?

They may not know there isn't a list -- there will be some techie narg somewhere who knows how it works, so quite possibly everyone else you ask assumes there's a list somewhere, puts a note on your records, and assumes it'll be taken care of through the wonders of technology.

There really ought to be a "N/A" option alongside Yes and No, though, to cater for your type of situation -- if there isn't it sounds like bad database design (or possibly bad query design if there is a field but they are doing hte query wrongly).

monkeybar, that's an idea. Although the only contact details on them to say you're unable to come are the doctors surgery.

Hmm, that makes it a bit more difficult! I would probably ring teh surgery and ask to speak to the practice manager, and ask him/her where the reminders are sent from. If they say it's the surgery, you could put your request in writing to the appropraite person. If they say it's some local health authority, you caould ask for contact details. (I have just left the pharmaceutical industry, don't mean to sound like a know it all!)

ooops appropriate

monkeybar, lol, no, thanks, that's helpful.

I'll phone them again with a bit more knowledge behind me. Although maybe not today.