3 weeks ago, I was supposed to have had my first vaccination as the local authority decided that those of us who work in a care service and come into contact daily with the vulnerable should be vaccinated.
Terrific. Link was sent, all my colleagues booked in and it was arranged that we would use one of our buses and go over to Slough in numbers and save using loads of cars.
I tried to book in only to be told by a computer link that my date of birth was wrong. I tried several times only to be told the same thing.
Cut a long story short, NHS contacted me and said that in some cases the date of birth had caused an issue but was usually resolved by using the American format, namely month, date and year instead of day, month and year. However, they promised to send a new link and advised me to book in again and hopefully I could get mine done.
The admin person who called I don't think was amused when I said that I thought it was ironic that all my colleagues had received the vaccination, but I am the only one considered vulnerable and was the only person at work not to get the jab (I think she had visions of me suddenly suggesting that I should sue the NHS for failing to jab me which never would be an issue) and she said something along the lines of, "I promise it will be sorted and if you don't hear from us within 3 or 4 days, call us and we will get it sorted" and then promptly gave me a phone number.
Well guess what. Link was never received, and when I did try to call, the phone went unanswered and so I gave up and decided to wait my turn like everyone else. I had already been told that I was in group 6, so I was going to be in the next batch once groups 1 - 4 were done.
Well yesterday morning got the call from my Doctors surgery asking if I would be happy to go to the surgery on Monday for my Covid vaccination. Terrific I thought, got my jab quicker than I expected, and I only have to drive a couple of miles down the road as opposed to drive all the way over to Slough.
About 5 hours later, Doctors surgery rang again and asked to speak to my wife. Could she go for her jab on Tuesday?
No problem says she, but she asked why she and I could not go in together as it would mean just one journey in one car, saving us time and money as well as the environment, and being from the same household it would seem sensible.
Oh no was the reply, it would upset all our logistics would be far too complicated to sort out!
Really?
Have I missed something?
It really doesn't matter, better to have it done making 2 journeys than not at all, but the logic escapes me. I would have thought the 2 of us going together would save effort, time, money and make it easier....
Terrific. Link was sent, all my colleagues booked in and it was arranged that we would use one of our buses and go over to Slough in numbers and save using loads of cars.
I tried to book in only to be told by a computer link that my date of birth was wrong. I tried several times only to be told the same thing.
Cut a long story short, NHS contacted me and said that in some cases the date of birth had caused an issue but was usually resolved by using the American format, namely month, date and year instead of day, month and year. However, they promised to send a new link and advised me to book in again and hopefully I could get mine done.
The admin person who called I don't think was amused when I said that I thought it was ironic that all my colleagues had received the vaccination, but I am the only one considered vulnerable and was the only person at work not to get the jab (I think she had visions of me suddenly suggesting that I should sue the NHS for failing to jab me which never would be an issue) and she said something along the lines of, "I promise it will be sorted and if you don't hear from us within 3 or 4 days, call us and we will get it sorted" and then promptly gave me a phone number.
Well guess what. Link was never received, and when I did try to call, the phone went unanswered and so I gave up and decided to wait my turn like everyone else. I had already been told that I was in group 6, so I was going to be in the next batch once groups 1 - 4 were done.
Well yesterday morning got the call from my Doctors surgery asking if I would be happy to go to the surgery on Monday for my Covid vaccination. Terrific I thought, got my jab quicker than I expected, and I only have to drive a couple of miles down the road as opposed to drive all the way over to Slough.
About 5 hours later, Doctors surgery rang again and asked to speak to my wife. Could she go for her jab on Tuesday?
No problem says she, but she asked why she and I could not go in together as it would mean just one journey in one car, saving us time and money as well as the environment, and being from the same household it would seem sensible.
Oh no was the reply, it would upset all our logistics would be far too complicated to sort out!
Really?
Have I missed something?
It really doesn't matter, better to have it done making 2 journeys than not at all, but the logic escapes me. I would have thought the 2 of us going together would save effort, time, money and make it easier....
