Pre School Immunisations

PrincessPlaty

Need a bit of help and hoping someone can point me in the right direction!

DD1 (4) had her pre school immunisations just after she started nursery last year (around May 08) whilst we were living in Lincolnshire. We have since moved to another area and changed GP.

I have today received a letter asking me to make an appointment for her to have her pre school immunisations this month

Phoned my GP who have said according to the records the last immunisations she had were back in 2006
They advised me to ring previous GP and ask them as they need an exact date to trace the records, did this and was told because we had changed GP's they no longer had access to the records.
They advised me to ring the PCT, rang them and they told me to ring the immunisation department at my local hospital as they should have access to the records for the entire country. The number they gave me has been changed, rang the new number and it put me through to the switchboard who tells me they have no immunisation department and didnt know who to put me through to and referred me back to current GP.

Any suggestions as to where i go from here?

Also the last records they have for immunisations in 2006 she would have been just over a year old so im presuming there is more than just this one record of immunisations missing? Though i cant remember what others she should have had.

When i moved to Lincolnshire i remember them giving both my DD's loads of extra injections which they had apparently missed out on, on their immunisation schedule as apparently all areas are different?

Help please!

rainbow81

Hi

I don't know if this still applies as my boy is 6 but we had a Red Book which gps and HVs and all sorts wrote in so we had a copy of all appointments. We were given it when the boy was born, it has graphs to track weight gain, etc, checklists for concerns re: hearing and such things and a page where all jabs are recorded. Do you not have this, or did the health professionals not request to write in it when you took your daughter for her injections??

I don't know where else the information could be, I'm sorry. I would have thought that if the new GP has any records they should include details of the immunisation appointments. Sorry I can't help but good luck.

x

PrincessPlaty

rainbow81 wrote: »

Hi

I don't know if this still applies as my boy is 6 but we had a Red Book which gps and HVs and all sorts wrote in so we had a copy of all appointments. We were given it when the boy was born, it has graphs to track weight gain, etc, checklists for concerns re: hearing and such things and a page where all jabs are recorded. Do you not have this, or did the health professionals not request to write in it when you took your daughter for her injections??

I don't know where else the information could be, I'm sorry. I would have thought that if the new GP has any records they should include details of the immunisation appointments. Sorry I can't help but good luck.

x

Unfourtunatly i dont have them well at least not up to date ones, when i left my violent ex they got left behind so any of the info that was in them is long gone now!

I thought that about the GP to however it doesnt appear to be the case The only other thing i can think of doing is trying to contact the health visitor on monday and to see if there is any records of them in with her records that they hold
Past that im clueless :rotfl:

HalfPint

I had this problem with my daughter...moved from scotland to south west and somehow her immunisation record appeared to vanish into thin air.

The last immunisation recorded on her medical record is her mmr. I know for a fact she had her pre-school aged 4 (she's now 11) but have no paperwork to prove it...neither does any appear to exist in the NHS system.

It came to light when her school wanted her to have a tetanus booster....I just refused to give permission. School accepted it and I heard no more.

Her immunisation is not the only record of ours that mysteriously appears to have vanished from medical records.

Try your old health visitors...they often have records...failing that I'd seek medical advice that having them again would not have any adverse effects before giving permission for them to be done again.

HP x

PrincessPlaty

HalfPint wrote: »

I had this problem with my daughter...moved from scotland to south west and somehow her immunisation record appeared to vanish into thin air.

The last immunisation recorded on her medical record is her mmr. I know for a fact she had her pre-school aged 4 (she's now 11) but have no paperwork to prove it...neither does any appear to exist in the NHS system.

It came to light when her school wanted her to have a tetanus booster....I just refused to give permission. School accepted it and I heard no more.

Her immunisation is not the only record of ours that mysteriously appears to have vanished from medical records.

Try your old health visitors...they often have records...failing that I'd seek medical advice that having them again would not have any adverse effects before giving permission for them to be done again.

HP x

Thanks HP glad to know im not the only one, dreading to think what problems im going to have when it comes to DD2 :eek:

I will give the health visitor a try on monday she did mention when i spoke to her last week that she had had their records come through so hopefully she might be able to find something in there!!

snapping_crocodile

Your old health visitor should have transfered your daughters notes to your new health visitor, so try giving your new one a ring as it should say in there if you have lost the red book. It should also say on her GP record, so i wonder where that disappeared to?! Down here, after we immunise a child we send a form to the child health department who record all the immunisations on a central record. Then once children reach 5, their notes are sent their too, so technically there should always be a record somewhere :rolleyes:

PrincessPlaty

snapping_crocodile wrote: »

Your old health visitor should have transfered your daughters notes to your new health visitor, so try giving your new one a ring as it should say in there if you have lost the red book. It should also say on her GP record, so i wonder where that disappeared to?! Down here, after we immunise a child we send a form to the child health department who record all the immunisations on a central record. Then once children reach 5, their notes are sent their too, so technically there should always be a record somewhere :rolleyes:

Thats what i was told by someone today not sure which one it was that told me though!
However according to the GP's records she hasnt had any immunisations since Aug 06, which would have been the pneumonia one that she had just after i had DD2.

It has just occured to me that could it be a possibility that they are getting confused somewhere between DD1 and DD2 as DD2 would be due her pre school immunisations next month

The idea that that could happen seems ludicrous but then so does the fact they have lost all record of her immunisations since 06

snapping_crocodile

PrincessPlaty wrote: »

Thats what i was told by someone today not sure which one it was that told me though!
However according to the GP's records she hasnt had any immunisations since Aug 06, which would have been the pneumonia one that she had just after i had DD2.

It has just occured to me that could it be a possibility that they are getting confused somewhere between DD1 and DD2 as DD2 would be due her pre school immunisations next month

The idea that that could happen seems ludicrous but then so does the fact they have lost all record of her immunisations since 06

Is the date of birth on the letter correct?

shellsuit

Hey hun, just got the babies red book and the immunisations should be at...

8 weeks
12 weeks
16 weeks
12 months
13 months
3-5 years - dtap/ipv
3-5 years (can be given earlier) - MMR
14 years

Can you work your dates around those?? xx

PrincessPlaty

snapping_crocodile wrote: »

Is the date of birth on the letter correct?

there is no date of birth on the letter it is just addressed to the parents of DD1 and then inside it has a list of what the immunisations she is due are, it was on phoning the GP surgery and asking what exactly it was that i found out that it was the pre school ones.

Cheers for that shell, she turned 3 march 08 and she had it some time between her starting school in the april and me moving from lincolnshire in the september. I found a link online earlier that said they should have their preschool at 3 years and 4months, which would have been around july 08. Which would be about the right time that she had it done, or at least in the time frame that i can be sure of! The GP surgery seem to want an exact date for their records though which obviously i cant give

snapping_crocodile

PrincessPlaty wrote: »

there is no date of birth on the letter it is just addressed to the parents of DD1 and then inside it has a list of what the immunisations she is due are, it was on phoning the GP surgery and asking what exactly it was that i found out that it was the pre school ones.

Cheers for that shell, she turned 3 march 08 and she had it some time between her starting school in the april and me moving from lincolnshire in the september. I found a link online earlier that said they should have their preschool at 3 years and 4months, which would have been around july 08. Which would be about the right time that she had it done, or at least in the time frame that i can be sure of! The GP surgery seem to want an exact date for their records though which obviously i cant give

3 years and 4 monnths is right. Lets hope the health visitor documented it, then you can get the GP off your back!