Offered a booster by mistake?

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My GP has sent a message and a reminder telling me to book my booster but I am mid 30s with no health conditions, not a carer or NHS staff (I am a teacher) and only had my second dose of Pfizer towards the end of May. As far as I can see I am not eligible so am unsure why I am being offered this. The NHS system will let me book it though for next week so I’m not sure what is going on. Has this happened to anyone else?

I was coming on to suggest gestational diabetes. I had it once nearly 3 years ago and was put in the CEV list late (a year after working consistently F2F with a high covid section of society...), but got my jab a few months before my age group. A woman at work had GD twenty years ago and had no other health condition and got hers early too. My practice nurse confirmed that's why I was offered it early.

Take it

I can confirm that GD (gestational diabetes) puts you into Group 6.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone but I’ve never had gestational diabetes (or ever been tested for it) during pregnancy. I’ve never been identified as immunosuppressed either. The only illness requiring hospital treatment I’ve ever had in my life was DVT during pregnancy but that was over 5 years ago. Don’t know how that would affect this though.

I think to have been jabbed as early as that , if not care/NHS staff or CEV, then you must be group 6 CV which they might started mid Feb

You must have known them you were months ahead of being age-qualifed for the first two shots. So on what grounds did you receive it in the first place?

I knew it was early for the first one but when I spoke to a gp friend after being offered it they said some practices were just going through their lists quickly depending on demographics and take up. At the time everyone was going to get one eventually so they said just go for it as I was working in school and the protection was gratefully received. Now though the eligibility seems much tighter so I’m again questioning why and thinking it’s more likely a mistake has occurred somewhere.

it is nearly november.
book it, it might take a while

Your GP will tell you they have no control over who is getting called for booster, so don’t bother ringing. In the first rounds of vaccines there were loads of people commenting on why they had been called early, when they had no reason to be, so probably just a computer rolling out texts. Maybe it’s gone on both your vaccine dates, not just the last one.

Did the reminder say booster or third dose? If the latter it does sound as though you’re (most likely erroneously) on a vulnerable list.

@WiseUpJanetWeiss The first text said booster but the reminder just said vaccine.

Why are you overthinking this when I have explained what the reason is?! Please don’t waste GP time by ringing the surgery; they are incredibly busy.

@Hetty0 Presumably because whether they're doing boosters at 5 months or not she still isn't eligible for one so it didn't explain why she's been contacted. When GPs and NHS England run searches, they don't only look at whether you had it 6 months ago, they also look at whether you were in cohorts 1-9, so you shouldn't expect her to be invited for a booster dose when she's in her 30s, has no health conditions and isn't a health and social care worker. That suggests there's something wrongly coded in her health records at the very least, surely?

A previous DVT would put you in Group 6. I've had blood clots before and it is one of the conditions listed so maybe that's the reason?

The system won't physically let you have the booster until 6 calendar months since your 2nd dose.

I could book after 180 days but went to the hub and they refused to jab me until it was 19th October (had 2nd on 19th April) as the system wouldn't let it enter it until that date.

So you still have a little while to wait.

@Gladioli23 That is exactly what I’m worried about - that there is something wrong on my medical records that will affect current or future care.