Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

Pollie

My aunt gets her Covid/flu jabs at home because she has mobility issues and also has very poor eyesight. Is this a service that your GP surgery offers?

beanielou

So far just flu jab.

Just phoned helpline & I can book anywhere. 
Off to the portal now!!

savingholmes

Hope you manage to get a more local appointment. I was offered a choice of venues. 

girlatplay

I hope you get a more local venue too.  That seems a long way, especially with no suitable parking.

Merlin's_Beard

Covid booster rollout does seem designed to frustrate. I'm not eligible, but I had to prod parents (who are) to go and ask, because they were expecting to be invited. List of local venues on the national booking site didn't include the local GP or local pharmacy (who has been advertising covid jabs on social media).

They go and ask at the GP - 5 minutes later they're booked into a nurse clinic and vaccinated within a few weeks.

And then they  wonder why uptake has been slow....!

beanielou

So. Beanie has a moan.
According to portal there are no centres within an easy or practical distance to me offering venues with parking.
I kid you not     

Sun_Addict

Our nearest walk in is just over 3 miles away. As you know we don't have a car and Mr SA has to use his scooter to get anywhere so the only way to get there will be for me to walk! We'll probably end up going into the city centre and use Boots, although this is still 3 miles away!

Grumpelstiltskin

Beanie Don't give up.
The pharmacy I ended up at had no parking and it was on a narrow street ( luckily one way ) with double yellow lines and was a bus route. 
It didn't stop people with Blue Badges parking on the yellow lines right outside the door.
Look at Google Street View for an idea if yellow line parking would be possible.

Sunshine_girl2

Contact your doctors and see if they know of any nearer . We have non in our area had to travel 3 miles but there is parking .

Glad the coat worked out . 

pollyanna_26

In this area there was large victorian building belonging to the NHS. It served all sorts of puposes dentistry. physo . occupational therapy too many to list.

The building was torn down some years ago and rebuilt as a large number of floors , big windows throw open on hot days to let the fresh air in. Bright and clean with a large car park at the rear and wheelchair access.

My youngest went there for physio , to the pain clinic and for various other things.

At the start of the pandemic a group of GPs got together. Our GP is on the board of our local hospital trust he's very proactive so he was one of the GPs aiming to take over the huge ground floor as a vaccination hub.

When the surgery phoned to arrange out first jabs there I was surprised how good it was.  No long queues waiting outside the appts were timed to avoid that.

There was a man at the main door masked like myself who asked my name and apt time , checked it on his list and triggered the automatic door telling me to go inside and take a seat.

Someone checked my details then told me to sit down. So I sat on one of the very socially distanced chairs. There were a lot of masked volunteers there and one came over to ask if I was ok. I told her I was needle phobic and feeling nervous telling her of the time as a child there was a big outbreak of TB alongside another of Polio all us school children were in big queues linedup wiith our mum or some other adult.

I think that time in the 50s was when Mary Berry caught polio and had to be sent away from home to a special hospital where her bed would be wheeled out of the ward each day on to a verandah where  she had to lie in the fresh air.

We were all terrified of the head school nurse she would come in to school checking our teeth and searching our heads for nits while shouting at us all.

Years later  reading Miranda to my children I thought gosh that nurse was like Miss Trunchbull the horrible headmistress. When it was my turn she rushed at me with two needles no syrup on a sugar lump as my children had for their polio vaccinations. Sandhe just rammed then both in at the same time.I developed a fear of injections but the lovely woman told me you'll be ok you wont even feel it.

SoI went with a nurse to the room where on of the Drs was and she stayed with me. We were so busy chetting I didn't notice the needle go in and thanked them both , it was lovely sunny day so I decided to walk down to the town centre nipped in to Bootsfor a pair of sunglasses. The shop was closed to customers but I was also collecting youngests monthly meds and the phamacist toldme to go and see iff I could find the type of sunglasses identical to the pair that gone mssing. I still suspect the smalest of youngests cats had pinched them she used to collect shiny things and bits of jewllry ,hairbobbles and all sorts of things and every now and then youngest would find a little hidden stash.

My dd had named her Magrat when she and her boyfriend rescued two little kittens badly neglected and their owner was about to abandon them and go abroad to find himself a wife. That was posted on Facebook and he lived a long way away away but ddd and her bf had a chat and she went back online ifyou bring them here we'll give them a home, The pair of them are having the time of their life.

Magrat Garlick in Discworld loved pretty shiny things and so does her namesake.

Our Boots pharmacy did one of youngests covid jabs when we had to go there for some reason. She was sruggling to find a slot at the hub and our GP was thinking of sending one of the practice nurses in to do it. They were doing her asthma checks and blood tests in her home. The funding for that was withdrawn by the Govt shortly afterwards and the hub started doing them not in her home but at the hub.

Anyway the day we had to be in the  Pharmacy  the  Head pharmacis aware dd was ECV offered   to give dd the Covid jab herself and that was sorted..

Are you in touch with anyone locally maybe online with similar difficulties to yours who may know of a suitable place for your jab. All the pharmacies here are doing them once you;ve contacted them- it can be a wait for an appt but not always. 2 of them have off road parking outside the shop which would be good for you.

pollyx

ETA Sorry for all the typos beanie. it's very cold and frosty here today and my hands aren't happy.