Have you or a friend /relative had an invite for coronavirus vaccination? What priority group are you/they? ?

[Nootkah]

I've had my invite today and so have lots of my colleagues. NHS ward staff. My firat appointment is 17th December.

Thought it might be interesting to try to track the mexican wave of vaccination as it passes through the priority groups.

We have had slots for vulnerable staff members - I got mine yesterday . Also frontline staff . Also the trust are contacting / inviting over 80s coming in for routine OPAs to have on same day . No mention of paramedics yet though ...

I know a couple of NHS GPS who’ve now had it.

Nurse. Booking next Saturday

Really hoping FIL in his 80s will get tested. We are tier 3, Birmingham (huge city) yet the city was not allocated the vaccination in the first round.

I mean get vaccinated!

Parents in their 80s received their invitation today for next week. West Yorkshire here 😊

Hospital Dr son got his first jab yesterday.

Friend who is an ITU nurse has got hers on Monday at the hospital where she works.

My mum in her 90s is booked to have hers next week

I work in a care home and no invite yet even though we were told we would be first( not that I'm saying we should be, it's great that nhs staff are getting it but I wonder why they said we would be having it first?)

Mum booked in for tomorrow she’s 89 already had covid and still testing positive after 7 week.

@MillieMoodle

Friend who is an ITU nurse has got hers on Monday at the hospital where she works.

The nurse who gave me mine on Tuesday said she’d had hers on Monday too.

Margaret in Coventry definitely wasn’t the first person in the UK to have it!

I was surprised to see the elderly chap on the news this week who rang up the hospital in London and got vaccinated the same day.

My mother, aged 90 and CEV, in the NW, has been told to wait until hears from GP, no idea of when that might be.
I work in a GP surgery about an hour away from her, we have not got any dates even for those of us who will be vaccinating others yet with our normal day-to-day work altered by risk assessments.
DB is CEV, works in a hospital in another trust, no word for him yet either.

Elderly relative aged 84 with COPD and former lung cancer patient had a text today; not an actual appointment but asking if he wanted to be invited for one.
He's over the moon; it's been a long nine months!

DS had his today in Leeds
Final year med student

My mum,90 and living at home has hers booked for next week with the 2nd appointment already made for early Jan

Someone I know who is a NHS Cancer nurse has been offered it. Neither of my 85+ GP have been offered it!

My sister - community nurse in Scotland. Got her first one on Wednesday. I'm a bit at the friend who got one on Tuesday; he works from home as an area manager for an organisation which provides support for disabled adults. His role is absolutely not front line although he manages those who are providing the care. Not sure how that entitled him so quickly - in his 30s with no health issues.

My mum was saying she's received an invite as a health care worker in a mental hospital. The hospital started vaccinating on Monday.

MIL (age 87, every health complication under the sun) has been invited to have it before Christmas.

She's decided not to have it though because "it isn't safe"

She lives alone and hasn't been able to go out, come for lunch, hug the grandkids etc etc for months.

It's SO frustrating!

PILS
Next week.

In laws live in Surrey, they’re in their 80s. They’ve had a text from their G.P. saying they’ll receive the Astra/Zeneca Oxford vaccine in January. Clever since it’s not been approved yet.

GP in Lothian. Getting mine on 21/12 and 18/1
Been on leave all week so don't know the state of play for the GP surgeries here getting the vaccine for the over 80s. I'm hoping my partners have been doing some logistical brain storming on planning the clinics in my absence!!

My mum is in Newcastle and has a hospital appt on the 15th December. She's 84 and told she will get hers then.. hoping they might do my 88 year old dad then.
I'm currently in Perthshire caring for my partner's very elderly parents and the carers haven't heard anything about the vaccine...nor have the doctors so it's very variable.

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@daisypond

I’m really surprised at some of these. My parents are late 80s with health concerns and they don’t expect to hear anything for a while. They are in their own home. I’m alarmed if it’s being organised by text, as my parents don’t have mobile phones.

Well obviously they will contact your parents by the usual means if they don't have mobile phones. The NHS uses various methods to communicate.

@margotsdevil

My sister - community nurse in Scotland. Got her first one on Wednesday. I'm a bit at the friend who got one on Tuesday; he works from home as an area manager for an organisation which provides support for disabled adults. His role is absolutely not front line although he manages those who are providing the care. Not sure how that entitled him so quickly - in his 30s with no health issues.

I agree it's surprising though I've seen posts on here from people saying that in some areas they're struggling to find enough over 80s to go and get it. Hopefully once the vaccines are more available in the community this will change. I absolutely think that nothing should go to waste though and if that means some healthier keyworkers getting it (even if they are WFM as you say) then so be it.