If you're NHS, have you been vaccinated?

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I keep seeing loads of people in the NHS have been vaccinated.

Our trust doesn't have a single vaccine to give out yet. Is this a postcode lottery thing? I work directly with covid patients sometimes and other wards the rest of the time and they're saying hopefully in February we will be vaccinated.

Is this common across the NHS?

DH has had both doses of Pfizer. Derbyshire..

No. It was meant to be before Xmas but is constantly being cancelled (Midlands). Should be next week.

Got my first dose booked for Friday, next dose end of March.Over 50’s, and frontline staff first, then everyone else.

My mum is retired but still does bank work (though hasn’t since Covid) and even she’s had hers. She was going to refuse because she isn’t working at the moment but I told her to grab it with both hands!

The NHS need us to be fit to work, whatever our positions.

I’m booked in to have it today.

@Revengeofthepangolins

I don’t see why finance staff etc are being vaccinated when so few over 80 year olds have been.

Because there aren't that many over 80s working in a particular hospital that has vaccine to use.

Our pcn and trust have vaccinated most nhs people now , also care home workers. It has been Pfizer vaccine up to now and once a batch is open it has to be finished so non patient facing staff get called in for the sixth dose or to use up those allocated for no shows which explains eg why some people ' in finance' have been vaccinated before porters. It is the difficulty with the Pfizer vaccine. We have AZ starting this week which is really exciting. We are in a high COVID area.The effort for the over eighties and care hime is proceeding well but has been limited until now by allocation of vaccine.

DS2 and DDIL had theirs in the first week. They’re both nurses, DS2 is in A&E, DDIL is on a Covid ward.

I'm having mine on Friday. A nice birthday present!
Having to travel 25 miles to the nearest available clinic though.
Practice nurse.

I think they've done first vaccines for the staff that work on the Covid wards at our trust but unsure when they'll get round to everyone else who still has to go in to the hospital to work.

The most recent stats show the UK has the third best vax rate so far in the world only behind Israel and Bahrain. And that 1 in 4 over eighties has been done.

That to me is something to celebrate among all the gloom.

I had mine (Community Care) at the local trust and they were doing three different sessions every day. NHS employees, Social Care staff and the over eighties. Some queuing but nothing onerous. NHS staff none clinical on site are offered slots depending on the no shows and left over vaccines each day.

Large London trust. Had my first Oxford/AZ dose yesterday. Second one in 12 weeks time.
Priority was first given to those working with covid patients, care workers, over 80s in the four local boroughs, ECV. Now moving on to other staff in the clinical vulnerable group and other patient facing staff.

Nope I'm a nurse working in the community and so far have heard nothing about getting vaccinated....

@Motorina

It's a postcode lottery thing. My trust has rolled out to ECV staff only. The ones who have been home on full pay since March. With no expectation they will return to the workplace once vaccinated, because they're still shielding.

Meanwhile, those of us actually in treating patients have been given no indication of timeframe.

I'm pleased for my vulnerable colleagues, but I'm also finding it really hard not to feel bitter about this.

I’m sorry that you haven’t been offered the vaccine but as CEV NHS staff I’d just like to point out (a) it’s been no picnic being confined to our homes either (b) some of us have been working very long hours throughout doing both our own jobs (remotely) and additional covid work (despite, in my case, having long covid myself) and (c) I don’t know where your point about no expectation to return to the workplace comes from. If we can’t work from home we are expected to return to work once vaccinated - that’s the point in vaccinating us.

No one’s been having an easy time of it through the pandemic and we CEV people are pretty sick of being demonised.

Grr. I was booked in for mine this week but it has been cancelled. Run out of doses.

Wales, and not yet.

Booked in for mine at the weekend , and second dose end of March.

Our trust have no idea what they are doing! We have been told to contact our GPS who are in the dark as well. We have been upgraded to critical care workers as from yesterday but I really feel like throwing down tools and refusing to see patients. As a dentist I see multiple patients a day. Perhaps GPs would like to sort them out from their bunkers. It is very frustrating when you hear that admin staff who have no patient contact are being offered vaccination.
I suppose when enough practices close the penny may drop.

Everyone who works at inpatient units at mine I’m admin but have been asked to book one as I go into patient areas

Frontline nhs Scotland and had first vaccine before Christmas, second one booked for next week but now extended to 12 weeks.

Yes, due 2nd dose Mon, doubt I will get it tho

All staff no matter what role are now eligible at my London Trust. They prioritised most at risk staff and now can open up to all.

Yes, but was in the right place at the right time. No one was expecting it so soon but the main site has had a certain number of vaccines to use by a certain date (Pfizer) so a slow and steady number have been done each week. No hierarchy in which it's been given so anyone from director of nursing and extended to health and social care colleagues in the community- first come first served.

My trust doesn’t have the vaccine yet but another local trust has offered slots to extremely clinically vulnerable (shielding) and the clinically vulnerable staff from our trust. Once we have the Oxford vaccine delivered it will be offered to all of us.