When will they start vaccinations on group 10?

[user1471523870]

Admittedly, I am a little obsessed with the vaccination rollout and CAN'T wait to be vaccinated. I am 46, no underlying conditions and therefore I belong to group 10.
Given there are 32m people in groups 1-9 and we have vaccinated about 28m as of two days ago, do you think the online calculators are reliable saying I should expect to be called anytime from next week?

Please adjust my expectations with more facts!

I don't think it's a sense of entitlement @HolmeH it's frustration probably more than anything that it's so near and yet so far. Also, these are the age groups with kids now back at school and most likely to be going back to work, or have been working throughout the pandemic, things are starting to open up yet to take advantage of this feels like we're still putting ourselves at risk.

@middleager @poppycat10 DH is late 40’s, obese, hbp, other underlying conditions, and in front of classes in secondary school all day. No sign of a vaccine. No waiting lists in gp surgeries. I can only conclude that no one cares until it looks like nhs beds are running out and he might die in an unsightly manner on the street.

Just for me to understand, when people here comment on their vaccination centers offering jabs/having completed the over 50s/etc where do they get the info from?

Lemons I feel for you.
I have a number of friends in school who contracted Covid at work.

@Adirondack

I’m so desperate for my jab. I don’t trust the government to sort the supply issues out. After Easter mixing, I expect cases in schoolchildren will soar, and we will have parents in their 20s 30s and 40s being infected. They may not die in the same numbers as older folk, but a new study shows long covid dispropprtionately affects middle aged white women. Another burden for mums eh?

Totally agree with this

Feel like bottom of the pile and with multiple DC at school we are at risk of not just infection but also the isolation if classmates get it.

I know numerous ladies my age that are suffering with long Covid.

I've got lots of friends in London and other areas of the UK in their mid to late 40's who have been vaccinated or are having theirs this week (because they were booked in before or had it before the latest shit kicked off).

I know that in my area they were almost complete on the over 50's in the vaccination centre and I had anticipated that we (age 49, months away from 50..) would be getting the call this week or next. Now with all the stuff going on it looks like another 6 weeks minimum. Gutted!

It's particularly annoying as I've got two kids in two different schools so can't control the risk of transmission as easily. My personal risk (especially with various health conditions that are a bit crap - but not counted as underlying) means that the chances I'd be quite ill with it & this unexpected additional wait, added to people (including families of kids at the school, teenagers at one school..) increasingly ignoring the rules - it just all feels like we're now upping the stakes daily on the Corona russian roulette...

@user1471523870

Just for me to understand, when people here comment on their vaccination centers offering jabs/having completed the over 50s/etc where do they get the info from?

One of our local surgeries posted about the walk in for 45+ on Facebook today. I was initially suspicious but it was definitely true. However, it was in the local large town so lots of traffic queues and I think people who live closer probably got in there first.

My local surgery are doing 45+ this week 😀

@user1471523870 stats for Scotland are on the BBC website at a high level by age group, although it doesn't tell you which age they are onto, just what % have been done and whilst it looks like a fair chunk of younger folk these must be the CEV, NHS workers, carers etc. The travelling tabby website also has the % done by each local authority area for Scotland but I don't see those stats for England on the UK version of it.
Who's currently being done / getting appointments is really just word of mouth and social media I think. Our GP practice occasionally puts updates on their facebook page although they're no longer vaccinating after the CEV & over 75s and everyone else is going to the mass vaccination centres so i haven't seen anything from them for a few weeks.

I am 46 and had mine on Sunday (not a carer or CEV) Any week now I imagine!

Don't give up hope! I nearly cried with disappointment when I heard about possible delay in supplies but I am 46 and yesterday at 5.09pm I got a text inviting me to my surgery and was done at 2pm today! So keep an eye on your phone. I'd resigned myself to may too. I got a Pfizer.

You get a text, and follow the ink and choose a date and time. It could not be easier. If you don't have a mobile, the surgery will call you directly to book you in!

It is an amazing set up, brilliant delivery. Proud to be British - for once!

@user1471523870 I only know because I know a couple of people volunteering at the big vaccination centre for the area. Sadly no sneaking in despite that!

@itsalonghaul that's not how it works for everyone, though. I've got many friends in their 50s with school-age children, no appointment letters, texts, or access to an online booking system. 61 year old neighbour got vaccinated yesterday. Meanwhile I've got friends in London in their 40s and they've all had theirs.

@Itsalonghaul sadly this is only the system in England. Scotland are sending out letters by post with appointments already defined. They're arriving at short notice (a friend got one on a friday for appointment on the saturday!) and if you can't make that date & time you then go online or phone to rebook which seems to be taking days before can get an appointment that's not 6 weeks away as they have to keep checking if cancellations have come up on the system. Some of the mass vaccination centres are out of town so people who don't have their own transport have been struggling to get there and some are drive-thru but they don't know who has and hasn't got a car so the risk of cancellations and rescheduling is probably quite high here, particularly as they get into age groups who are more likely to be working and unable to attend at such short notice.

@Arcadia

Don't give up hope! I nearly cried with disappointment when I heard about possible delay in supplies but I am 46 and yesterday at 5.09pm I got a text inviting me to my surgery and was done at 2pm today! So keep an eye on your phone. I'd resigned myself to may too. I got a Pfizer.

Good news! Sadly, my surgery do not do the vaccination on site. I think if they did we may have been called. They don't have a social media presence either.

My friends, both 45, had texts today inviting them to book. They’re 3 miles down the road from me, in Surrey.

@user1471523870

Just for me to understand, when people here comment on their vaccination centers offering jabs/having completed the over 50s/etc where do they get the info from?

My gp surgery keep us regularly updated with which group they are on via Facebook. They have said they have been given permission to move to 40-49's now.

@HarryLimeFoxtrot

I’m in group 6 and still waiting to be called. I suspect I’m even more impatient than you are. I’m starting to worry that I’ve been forgotten about.

Call your gp. I'm in group 6 and hadn't heard anything so gave them a call. Even though I was group 6 and they could see that by my medical records, my record wasn't flagging up as group 6 so I wouldn't have been given an appointment. They acknowledged it was a clinical error so booked me in there and then.

Looking like til til May now unfortunately.

Dh is 47y with no underlying conditions.
But he is still visiting elderly and also vulnerable clients at home, in care homes and in hospices to do essential legal work for them (his specialism is a key worker role) so he'd been told he would be eligible. Done if his younger colleagues have already had vaccines via their own surgeries but ours has said he isn't eligible.

So it's a case for him now just hoping his clients are all okay. Not all are able to be vaccinated.

My local surgery contact 46 + this week and my friend who is 45 is booked in too. I haven't heard yet but hoping within 2 weeks.

My GP text me a week ago to book my vaccine and I'm having it on saturday.

I'm 40, I have asthma but not seriously enough to be in group 6 so figure they must have gotten down to the 40 year olds.

Is there a difference if the GP texts or you just get an NHS text? Mine included a link to book with my medical centre.

Over 45’s have been texted here and booked in in next 5 days - talk of the playground

This is all really encouraging. Assuming these centres booking in 40+ Also know they have enough doses coming for the 2nd doses of which several million are due very soon.

Literally reading this thread when my phone beeped and my invite arrived. I'm 48. Hoooray. Didn't realise I would feel so pleased to be getting it.