Change hospital appointment?

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I'm not sure whether this is just my anxiety kicking in so I would appreciate some thoughts thanks.

I have a hospital appointment in 10 days, its non urgent and I've already rearranged it once from the middle of January when cases were rocketing in our area. I was set to just bite the bullet and attend this time, however I've just had the date through for my vaccine - next week. I'm wondering whether to rearrange hospital appointment again for a couple of weeks after the vaccine? Cases are still really high here, though not as high as January. I'm newly shielding now as well.

With the vaccine so close, I personally would not take up a non-urgent hospital appointment and would wait until 3 weeks after the vaccine to make sure as much immunity as possible has kicked in.

If it’s not urgent, cancel now so that the appointment can go to someone else and rearrange for 3 weeks after vaccine.

Yes if it’s not urgent, get vaccinated first.

Thanks for confirming what I thought and not calling me unreasonable!

Is it likely to get moved to a telephone consultation? Our local hospital is basically moving everything to phone at the moment. DD needs a F2F appointment and she's told they have no idea when she will be able to get one.

You would need a minimum of 14 days before the vaccine actually makes any difference. Ideally 21 days to get the most protection possible out of the first dose.