My 13 week old baby's not been immunised

[Ruthcarr1990]

Morning all, has anyone else barn in my situation,

My 13 week old son has not had his immunisations, I was contacted by his doctors when he was 5 weeks old (nearly 6) when they wanted me to bring him in to have his injections due to the fact they do not have a practice nurse that can do the injections as they are not trained, I point blank refused to have them done then as baby's have to be 8 weeks to have their first lot, so then when he was 8 weeks I was calling, going into the doctors asking when he would be having them, only to be fobbed off saying that they did not have a nurse or GP that was trained to give injections, I'm sorry but how the hell can a doctor not be trained to give injections!!!

Then I got a date for his injections which he would of been 10 weeks old. All was set, and then on the Thursday afternoon the day before his appointment he was admitted into hospital with suspected sepsis!! All kinds run through my head, was it the fact that he hadn't had his injectons? What if the doctors would of organised for a nurse to come in every 2 weeks to do them.
So with us having to spend 3 nights in hospital and him having to have 2 canulars fitted as one didn't work I had to cancel his appointment.

So now he is 14 weeks still no appointment for his injections, yet again battling with the snotty receptionist as to when they are going to have another date for the injections.

Now I've changed doctors, was told I would have to wait for child health to put him on the list for the new doctors, so I thought if I ring his health visitor she may be able to speed up the process, only to find when I rang up she's retired!!! No one sent out any info for us informing she had retired!!!

Just feel as tho I'm constantly having to battle against them to be able to get what my son is entitled to!!!

Is this really the state of the nhs today that an innocent baby can just be fobbed off?

That's my rant over had to get it off my chest!! Feel as tho I'm going insane constantly going on about it.

Th ask for reading

Ruth

Xxx

It’s ok for them to be a bit late, especially if the baby has been sick.

Keep ringing for an appointment but it sounds as if you might have to change gps if you are finding this one no good.

@3luckystars thanks for reading my rant lol, I understand that they can have them late but they still do not have a date, it is now pushing all his other injections back, he should of had his 2nd set now, my mum works in a doctors surgery and she has spoken to the person that deals with their baby imms and they have said that they shouldn't be this late and they have a duty of care for them to arrange for a nurse to go in and do them. Xxx

Herd immunity (where the vast majority of the population have been vaccinated) means that diseases shouldn't spread so quickly, so don't panic about him vulnerable. Keep asking at your new doctor's though because herd immunity is meant to protect those who cannot have the vaccination.
If he had suspected sepsis, he must have been pretty poorly, so wouldn't have been able to anyway.
Seems like he has a great mum as you are so concerned and proactive about his health.

I'm not surprised you are ticked off! To me that is unacceptable. Id ring around surgeries and see who might actually be able to do him.

Call the health visitor for back up. Even if yours has left and they haven’t assigned you a new one there will be a duty health visitor who will be able to help. And call the doctor one more time and if the receptionist won’t book you in, then raise a complaint to the practice manager. I had a similar situation with DD’s new baby check which was repeatadly cancelled, then the only doctor apparently able to do it left... I ended up having to take her private as I wanted her to have some sort of check up. Which is probably not what you want to hear.

I've gone to a new doctor, rang the health visitor who said she was going to ring child health and make sure he's on next weeks list at the new doctors,

I've put in a formal complaint to the practice manager and I've got the number for my local lycia office who vets all the doctors and complaints, it's just irritating how they can just leave him!! Fingers cross he smhas them in the next week. Xx

It doesn't matter about them being late. Ds had his 2nd set about 6 weeks later and his third set about 9 months late due to illness.

A doctor or nurse has to not only be trained in giving injections but specifically in paediatric injections to my knowledge. If they are not trained in that then they cannot give it due to insurance reasons. It's not them being awkward.

I'm not sure it has been dreadful treatment. I assume that they had a visiting nurse at 5 weeks and they made the medical decision that it would be better to do it early for you. Did you discuss it, or just refuse?
For what it's worth, dd1 had hers done at 6 weeks as we were going away and they decided it was better to do them early. She reacted the least of all three of mine.

At 8 weeks they didn't have anyone that could do it. They can't do it then. Ds was due a blood test a few weeks ago when I got a phone call to say the only person who could do a paediatric blood test was off sick, and could well be for some time. So I had to go to the hospital (with a 2-3 week appointment wait). I didn't get cross with them, as it's not their fault.

At 10 weeks it was booked, but your ds was sick. not your fault, but not their fault either.

They probably didn't want to give the injections too soon after he'd had sepsis either. One reason why ds was so late in having his injections was because he'd been very ill they wanted to leave a few weeks for his immune system to recover and it was thought to be better for him.
It wouldn't have been caused by not having his injections, so put your mind at rest there.

If you change doctor it will delay things, as I'm sure you're aware these things take time. So it isn't just them fobbing you off.

@Witchend I had a call this afternoon off the new doctors and he has his appointment for next week (much to my relief.) xx