I have a small child who is due the next round of immunisations. I had an appointment sent to me on a day that I cannot make. I work 5 days a week, 4 weekdays and one day at the weekend so have one fixed day off in the normal working week in which to get all of the life admin / chores done.
My drs doesn’t do the immunisations through their nurses, it has to be a health visitor. The health visitors only do immunisations in clinics and dispite living in a big city and being willing to travel they cannot fit me into any clinics on my day off, ever. ‘Take a day off work’ they suggest. I only get the bare minimum holiday and it’s all allocated until the end of the year.
And I am a bit pissed off about the suggestion that I take a full day off work to get my child immunised. It seems to me like so much in this country that nothing has changed from the 1970s when families survived on a single income and the mum stayed home. Life’s not like that these days, and I’d expect the nhs to understand that and be a bit flexible in understanding that I cannot be in a certain place at a certain time.
We’ve hit an impasse and my child isn’t getting immunised (until I calm down and gather the energy to try to address the situation once more). AIBU to expect the NHS to be a bit more flexible?