Any covid vaccinators?

[TryingNotToPanicOverCovid]

Hello!

I've been sent my text to book a covid jab online but I have 2 questions.

• How long does it have to be between covid positive test and jab? I think its 4 weeks - is that from the covid test or from recovery??

• Also I only have 2 days this week appear on my link (GP link - I'm its not the national one) and none after that. Will more days appear if I leave it a few days?

I'm so impatient to book now!! (paranoid my test might have been a false positive/I'm still at risk somehow!)

Thankyou

www.ouh.nhs.uk/working-for-us/staff/covid-staff-faqs-vaccine.aspx
You can have the vaccine 28 days after you had a positive test for COVID-19 or 28 days after your symptoms started, so you may need to wait

The 2 days available will be added to. We don’t know too far in advance what days we will get delivery of vaccine so clinics can’t be added until we know.

Ah thankyou so much. Hugely appreciated.

It's only showing this Wed and Thu so far. I will be 28 days Friday! So will keep checking hoping they'll add Friday... :)

Mine isn't showing any availability at the GP hub yet now that the weekend clinic is over, so I'm not sure when they will get more.

When you say you don't know too far in advance, do you mean a couple of days, weeks, hours? When you find out when it's coming, do you also find out which one it is? Do you request certain numbers/types for different days?

At the hub I volunteer at they only know vaccine supplies about a week or so in advance so add new sessions all the time - just keep checking :-)

Thankyou. Will be every 5 mins :D

Just wondering how often most places that aren't the mass vaccination centres (e.g., GP groups) have clinics - do you tend to do phases of every day for a week/weekend, and then nothing for a while, or is it a regular every 3-days sort of thing? What determines it?

I assumed the big centres were just open every day, but I'm not sure - do they get deliveries that often?

Our gp is aiming for 2 days a week but don’t know if vaccines will definitely arrive until a day or two before. Bookings are quite last minute to reflect that.

Mine still has just the next 2 days on there

Ah thanks stclair. My mum was at a big centre so pretty much all day every day. Mine seems to be in a hired venue and as you say just 2 days. Maybe it will be 2 days next week too?

So thnakful tot everyone involved in this and impressed at how its all gone.

thanks. That's probably why ours isn't updating with anything further yet, if it can be just a day or two notice. I won't wait to try to get a time that fits with work, but will just take what I can when they come!

I'm a volunteer at a GP vaccination centre and quite often get calls first thing in the morning asking me if I can come down immediately. It can be that last minute. At the moment I know I'm needed on Friday and there's a chance of Monday, too.

Is the vaccination programme being staffed by volunteers? That's a lot of volunteers!

And thankyou to all who are x

Thanks. Do you ask for orders of particular amounts on particular days, or does the system decide that?

@TryingNotToPanicOverCovid

Is the vaccination programme being staffed by volunteers? That's a lot of volunteers!

Volunteers at GP practices are usually used to manage car parking, guiding people, traffic management and queues and assisting people with mobility and other issues. Rather than actual vaccination itself. But yes, it’s a lot of people needed each week.

It’s all effectively good-will driven. For example, I (and a fair number of my colleagues) have volunteered although most of us haven’t heard anything yet. It’s technically paid, but the banding means it’s less than half our normal rate. And very much less than I would normally earn for bank work on weekends! We think of ourselves as volunteering, even though it’s technically paid.

Question for those of you who know how the ordering/supply issues work: if my GP practice has just added one day, over a week away, are they likely to know which vaccine they will be getting yet? Or is it really an on-the-day (or day before) sort of thing? i.e., they know they'll get something, which is why they can arrange appointments, but don't know which? All the other days they've arranged clinics in the past, they've stated on the website which one they're using, but not this time - and they tended to do a run of days of one (Pfizer) in Jan, and then a break, then a run of AZ later Jan and early Feb. People who've worked at various centres have said they often don't know til shortly before when/if they are getting some and which one. So I was surprised to find that they know about these 10 days in advance, but not which one, and also that there is only one day. I wonder if it's likely that they will add more? (it's only a weekday so far, so it might be that they will add weekend dates at some point, but haven't yet)