Confused about order of people getting vaccine!

[Jet888]

I mean I get the official government order. But my husband has heard of several colleagues this week, Southampton area, in their 30s, no medical conditions, not living with vulnerable people etc who have been contacted to book their jabs. Whilst he's in his 40s in Salisbury and waiting like I thought the government announced we'd all have to do! Confused! Makes me annoyed at having to go in and teach every day with no protection and his colleagues all working from home and younger than me are getting jabbed. Not sure what I'm missing here!

It depends on your local authority, how they’re getting through the ages etc. I had mine yesterday at 49 as was invited. No health conditions. I wasn’t going to turn it down!!!

It depends on where you live, and the demographic of the other groups there. The vaccine rollout in Southampton wont be stopped so Salisbury can catch up.

From what I've read on here, it's GPs who are inviting under 50s but on the national system it's not open to under 50s. Hope it is soon!

It also largely depends on GP demographics - GP vaccine allocations are by practice size as I understand it rather than practice demographics. So if you for example the two GP practices have similar number of patients they will be allocated similar number of vaccines, so if for example you are at a GPs in Salisbury with a supply of 1000 vaccines that has a high proportion of elderly or vulnerable patients, they will use more of their vaccine on this cohort before for example a GP with the same number of vaccines and a younger patient demographic (i.e. university students etc). Friends that have been surprised to be offered have found it’s because they live city/town centre close to university/younger demographic housing.

That makes sense, thankyou. Guess southampton has larger student population and less elderly than Salisbury. Certainly don't begrudge anyone taking up vaccination offer if accepted!

also the vaccine take-up is very different in different areas, so even if they tried to re-allocate based on the age distribution in certain areas, it still wouldn't stop some areas from getting ahead of others. Some areas of London were doing much lower age groups, and people were moaning that they had special treatment because they were London, but actually it was just that there was poor take up amongst some of the older ages. They can't be continually reallocating the vaccine deliveries or it would be too inefficient, so there have to be some relatively general guidelines like size of GP practices, and then things like different age distributions and different take-up of the vaccine end up leading to post-code disparities. If you get into things being too precise - changing for age groups, double checking how much patient-facing time health care workers do, investigating whether the group 6 code that the algorithm has picked up really truly should mean group 6, etc - the whole thing slows down. So some disparities and errors are accepted as a trade-off for the whole thing running more efficiently and smoothly overall

All my colleagues in their 40s are being invited for their vaccines now. I'm 30 and haven't heard anything, the only people I know in their 30s who have been vaccinated are those with health conditions/NHS workers.

I'm in Southampton, I turned 40 last summer and had my vaccination on Saturday. Massive surprise, got the text from my gp on Thursday. Surgeries in the next postcode are still on the previous group. The surgery I am with is huge- the nurse doing my jab told me that they had been ahead all the way through the rollout so far, and had vaccinations available, so have kept on going. Very impressed, brilliantly organised all the way though.

Hope everyone gets theirs soon, I'm the first of my friends to have it, literally because of the specific practice I am registered with.

I think anybody with a birthday up to and slightly beyond 1980 has now had the text in my neighbourhood. Half the parents at school seem to have had the text today! Several of us will be turning up at the same time to the vaccination centre (it was actually co-incidence at the point of booking, we just chose the time under the same logic!
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I think anybody with a birthday up to and slightly beyond 1980 has now had the text in my neighbourhood. Half the parents at school seem to have had the text today! Several of us will be turning up at the same time to the vaccination centre (it was actually co-incidence at the point of booking, we just chose the time under the same logic! Partay!

DH is looking forwards to telling MiL... she's nearly 90 and will have been vaccinated less than a month before I get mine at nearly 50 years younger! (She's in Europe). My B/SiLs will be jealous as at their rates of progress, theirs are many months away despite being roughly 15 years older

Our neighbourhood is fairly young. Not many elderly. Probably more 60s-30s and young adult children. Also a lot of key workers so many in the younger age groups will have been covered earlier by the NHS.

Seems I need to move area! Fingers crossed comes along soon! Just so worried going to get it over next 2 days and be isolating for easter hols. My colleague had a child hug her who then tested positive so her break from school will be stuck in for 10 days with a 1 year old. I need to work on avoiding my class until Friday! (Joking obviously, year 2 don't understand social distancing all that well!)