When will we get a vaccination?

[madcatladyforever]

Half my NHS department is off with coronavirus or self isolating with it, over Christmas there were three of us working, everyone else off sick. We are allied professionals working in the hospital, not nurses but exposure to it daily.
We have been told they don't know when we will be vaccinated, might not be for some time, same with the nurses.
Yet all the local nursing homes have had vaccinations as have my 80 year old parents who have deliveries but never leave the house.
Given there will soon be hardly any staff left to care for any sick people what is the logic of that?
i don't have any kids at home to worry about or anything but I'd quite like to be able to continue working and looking after patients that come in but apparently there is no date anytime in the future that we will get our vaccinations, there was some vague mention of April.
Seems all cock eyed to me. NHS staff sickness is at an all time high and people are dropping like flies yet people in nursing homes are the priority here? I don't understand the rationale.

The rationale is that Bojo and co are already embarrassed at Britain's body count. Their priority is now to avoid hitting the 100k mark. So they will rush to vaccinate over eighties (who will never make it to a hospital if they catch Covid) while the health service collapses trying to keep 40-70 year olds alive because the 40-60s seem to be the age range surviving but needing a week or two in hospital, mainly because they are working and caring for children and are therefore exposed to Covid.

Yes, their strategy is as epic a failure as their handling of everything else.

The gardener at my Grandparents nursing home has had his vaccination!

If you’re under 50 possibly never.

After teachers, who are currently shouting very loudly that they need vaccinating NOW.

Which is odd, because they aren’t working with covid patients, unlike you.

I completely agree OP. As devastating as it is to loose an elderly loved one, people in care homes are generally at the end of their lives, and no longer economically active, and I also fail to understand why they are being made the national priority. NHS/care workers/hospital workers should always have come first followed by the ECV.

Partner's 92 year old gran hasn't heard anything. Partner's Cousin who's a surgeon and 34 years old has had the vaccine

Yes, because that surgeon needs to go to work. He can’t catch covid and stay at home sick.

@CountessFrog

After teachers, who are currently shouting very loudly that they need vaccinating NOW.

Which is odd, because they aren’t working with covid patients, unlike you.

Absolutely no need to bring teachers into this. It's not a competition. School staff mix with many people who may have covid and should be vaccinated AFTER Priority groups and NHS staff.

Op I hope you have your vaccination very soon.

I think that when the Oxford vaccine is approved, NHS workers, teachers and all other healthcare workers will be priority along with over 80’s and care home patients. I do hope so anyway.

I am wondering this too. I am due to start working for the NHS in the virology labs and I am in the 'flu jab' vulnerable group, I am wondering if those two risk factors (job plus health condition) will bump me up the list as as it stands I am in priority group 6. Apparently different trusts have different policies.

But some nhs workers are getting it
Leave it to the scientists to work out who is best to get it first as if less people are hospilised with it less drs/ nurses will be exposed

The goverment haven't just plucked a list out if thin air they have followed advice , hopefully oxford one soon so should speed these up

In other countries, military and medical staff have received this first.

I hope your turn comes soon.

The government are prioritising people who on average have less than two years to live and are largely already 'cocooned' away from society.
By the time the younger working population are reached, a significant proportion of that initial cohort will already have died of something else.

It will be very interesting to observe the over 70's behaviour once they become vaccinated in large numbers.

Nurse here. Still waiting.

And that's some medical bill we will be left with for those younger patients who are left with long Covid for the rest of their lives and unable to work due to illness.

@CountessFrog

After teachers, who are currently shouting very loudly that they need vaccinating NOW.

Which is odd, because they aren’t working with covid patients, unlike you.

Hello, I'm a teacher. I would like the vaccine after cev and nhs/card staff but before people like my husband who works from home. This thread wasn't about teachers but here we are again.

OP I hope you get your vaccine soon.

Our health board is estimating all nhs/social care workers vaccinated by end jan.

The government are prioritising people who on average have less than two years to live and are largely already 'cocooned' away from society

How's that cocooning working out for them?

Three of my family members are community AHPs and they haven’t heard a thing about getting vaccinated. I think it’s disgraceful.

I’m NHS but in and out of various surgeries rather than a hospital. It all seems very ad hoc, the only staff getting them at the minute are the ones who happen to be around after 5pm and there is some vaccine left that needs to be used that day when people haven’t turned up etc. The vaccinations are done in a non emergency hospital. I keep asking but haven’t had success yet. Desperate to have it so I can feel safe seeing patients.

Whilst my grandparents in a care home are hopeful of getting vaccinated in January, we still cannot visit due to the risk to our own families, plus we are working out of the home and have children in schools.

I am hoping all NHS staff are vaccinated ASAP so they can be in work safely.

It's up to your region how they set up the lists for staff vaccination.

I've heard some corkers of illogicalities!

I was posting because I'm nearly 60 years old and have various health problems as well that make me very vulnerable yet somehow I seem to be one of the only staff here untouched by covid. I'm either immune or just really careful. But yes it would be nice to get the vaccine soon.
I'm really concerned by the numbers of medical staff all over the country who are off sick.

I am not sure how it is being co-ordinated. About half my department at work recently were offered the vaccine when it was rolled out. We all do the same job and have the same level of patient contact (that being said, people who are on long-term (non-covid) sick leave were vaccinated - they obviously have no patient contact!). It doesn't appear to have been based on any risk assessment. There are older, semi-retired staff, there are six of us in our thirties who have no health problems (five of us were invited) and staff between the two ages. I don't know how they have chosen who to invite.

Patients regularly ask me when they will be vaccinated - I do not know.

Four badly. Because their age and general health is against them. Many are already at the end of life with very poor physical and cognitive function and coming to a natural end.