@Sunflowergirl1
What I'm angry about is at our local vaccination centres some people have failed to turn up for their injection. On Friday at 5pm they had a load of vaccines left which had to be binned if not used. So they used a friends and family system and rang them to come down and used the vaccines..apparently it is common and being used to ensure that it is better to use them rather than bin them. It happened to our neighbour. She got called and husband was with her and they had some left and gave him his. What's called efficiency?
PC/ media brigade started over the weekend and now NHS putting a stop to it...just mad so we will throw away vaccines for people that would have got it anyway!
I can't believe they could turn a success story into a fuck up
Phoning up elderly/confused people and giving them an appointment somewhere they don't know, was always going to lead to lots of missed appointments unfortunately.
My MIL was phoned (she's independent normally but can't cope with anything different). She has her routines re repeat prescriptions, banking, shopping, etc., which she copes with.
She didn't even remember to tell us about the phone call until a few days later. Then she'd made a garbled note about the football stadium but thought she could just go whenever she liked. She was going to go by bus on the next "nice" day. Not that there are any buses from her road to the stadium, not that she even knows where the stadium is.
It took my OH a lot of phoning local GPs to get the phone number of the covid booking dept, and eventually we got the appointment time, which was the next day, so we took her. All good.
But that could so easily have been another missed appointment. It's really no surprise that elderly/confused people miss appointments when it's something unusual, even moreso when it's not their local GP surgery (who they know), sorting it out.