Childhood immunisations?

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I have a 12 week dc who was due his second round of needles next week, now not going ahead as our gp surgery is no longer doing face to face appointments.

As I understand it (and happy to be told I'm wrong) there is only a certain window of a few weeks for these immunisations to be had. I'm not expecting things to go back to normal in the next month so does it mean dc will just not be vaccinated? Or can these be caught up at a later date?

I understand with everything going on that things will change, just wondering what happens with things like this

I imagine they will be caught up

Surgeries are doing vaccinations. Childhood imms are in green section of what is to still happen in primary care. Ring surgery to see if you can book them. I'm mainly doing tel reviews but still face to face for imms and other essential vaccinations/injections

@twig1234 I did have an appointment booked for next week but got a message through the app saying all routine appointments are now cancelled for the foreseeable and only telephone consultations are available.

I've been trying to ring for days now and it's either engaged or ringing out so not sure what to do? If we have to skip them then so be it, just wondering what happens further down the line as we've been told they can only happen in a 4 week window

Imms are continuing here as before, can you leave a message for the health visiting or immunisation team? Immunisation appointments are usually separate from gp/nurse appointments so you should still be able to take your baby for their injections surprised they’ve not let you know. On fb my local health trusts have put on Facebook that they are going ahead as before with extra measures for social distancing etc

I still had to take my baby for his last set of vaccinations the other day. The surgery was empty (usually packed) and me and the baby were the only ones there. The nurse i saw said they have been told to carry on with the vaccines. Id ring if i was you.

Oh that's not good that you can't get through! I'm in south east and we must continue to see baby and child imms pts. In some areas the school nurses are doing separate clinics for this age range to help out surgeries.
It's ok for a delay I'm imms over the 4 week gap but ideally they should be vaccinated. The surgeries are sending out blanket texts to all pts about non face to face but I don't think it applies for your appt but you do need them to clarify this. Can you email them or send message on their webpage?

They’re happening here too. I’d keep trying to ring as I had my 6 week check automatically changed to a phone call. I said to the receptionist would I still get a face to face eventually to check baby etc and they said yes. GP rang and said that 6 weeks checks still have to be face to face so I think some surgery admin staff might be accidentally changing/sending these texts as a sort of blanket approach

I’ve specifically been asking about the 8 week jabs and they are still going ahead

Didn't even think of sending them a message through the app I'll send them one now and carry on trying to get through on the phone.

I'm currently shielding (day 16 here) so dp will need to book morning off work to take dc. Hopefully find out soon 🤞🏻

My doctors surgery is in a big heath centre, 2 other surgeries and a walk in centre so I'm wondering if that could effect it? Just have to keep ringing I suppose

It's the Rotavirus one that is the most critically time constrained..

Yourchildmust get the first dose ofrotavirus vaccinebefore 15 weeks of age, and the second before 24 weeks.

Assuming your child had this first one already, the second can be given up to the age of 6 months. The others are not so time critical and can be caught up later if necessary.

(I know this is not ideal and hopefully your health centre will realise that infant vaccinations should still be going ahead but I think it's useful to know which parts of the schedule are critical.)