I WANT the swine flu vaccine and can't get it

[roary]

I want the swine flu vaccine. I had an appt this morning and like an idiot missed it (terrible heartburn last night, dh let me sleep in so I slept through it, completely forgot till just now). No appts avail till 22 January!!! What do I do? It's been almost impossible getting it from my surgery, I had to kick up a huge fuss for this appt anyway (apparently they have a lot of priority cases who aren't pg women).

Any ideas as to how I can get it?

Did you see my post about getting it privately:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/876643-Celvapan-available-privately-now

Might help...

Why don't you contact your GP surgery, apologise profusely for missing the appointment make sure you get another appointment. Ask to speak to the practice manager if you can't get any sense from the dragon receptionist. After all we are second priority only to other health service workers so there is no reason why you should not get another appointment very soon.

Speak to the practice manager - and be strong - when I finally got my appointment they suggested one in three weeks time, but hubby phoned back and was quite pushy (without being rude) and she phoned back five minutes later and offered me a cancellation for that week. I think they are being very slow considering the consequences and how they keep saying what a priority it is. By January flu season is already half way through (and for some people they will have had their babies!)

My appointment isnt until the 13th of January, I will be 38 weeks then.

Im going to phone on Monday to see if they have any cancellation appointments before that.

Im still going to have it see here. You are still at risk until at least 6 weeks after giving birth.

Thanks everyone - I am away next week, so will try again on my return - is my own fault for forgetting! But it is a ridiculous system giving all GP surgeries the same amount of vaccine - I happen to know that other surgeries can't get enough people to come in for the vaccine, and ours is chronically short.

Grrr - in Canada they did this by organizing central clinics, which did suffer from huge waiting times at first but the result is that everyone, including 0-5s, is already vaccinated!