Flu Jab Time,

Ms_Mop_123

I've got a comprised immune system due to the drugs I take for Rheumatoid Arthritis so I meet the criteria of having it done on the NHS. I normally have it done at my GPS surgery, who I must admit are very efficient when they do it. Lots of doctors and nurses there doing it, last time I went I checked in and didn't even have time to sit down before I was called.

Last year I had it done at Boots. I was going abroad and I knew the vaccine takes about three weeks before your covered and the next planned clinic was after the holiday (it was a last minute holiday). I did ask one of the nurses at my practice when I went for a blood test only to be told she couldn't do it, she was trained only to do blood tests....really!? It's only a needle being stuck in your arm and then pushing the plunger thing down. I told her I could do it myself beings I inject two different sorts of medications into myself weekly, it's not rocket science how to do it.

Anyway I found it very easy having it done at the chemist. I phoned up and booked an appointment and it was done by the pharmacist, had to wait in the store for about ten minutes after having it done. Only thing I didn't like about was if anyone saw me being called into the private consultation room they may of thought I was having my daily dose of Methadone. ☹️

Red-Squirrel_2

Murphybear wrote: »

Sorry to disagree. I think a trained nurse at a GP practice will have more experience of giving injections than a pharmacist.

The surgery I used to go to booked you in for appointments every 2 minutes so you were in an out in a flash.

I'm a trained nurse, there's not much to a flu jab, anybody who has had proper training should be able to do a good job of it.

System

My gp has a mass clinic on a Saturday it’s bedlam ! Much easier to get it done at the chemist .

pmduk

CHRISSYG wrote: »

My gp has a mass clinic on a Saturday it’s bedlam ! Much easier to get it done at the chemist .

That's my experience hence going to a pharmacy. My GP surgery does you 4 at a time.

KxMx

My surgery does open mornings, maybe 30 people waiting at any one time and 10 chairs provided in the small waiting room. Queues out the door.

I qualify for a free jab but don't come under the certain list of conditions GP prints out a list of. So my name is never on the list and I always have to discuss my issue with the receptionist with no privacy.

Did mine at the chemist last year. Was merely asked to tick which box I qualified under. She went through the form with me and had a look at my repeat prescription.

Many pharmacies offer travel vaccines so pharmacist will be trained in and used to giving jabs.

capital0ne

jazzy wrote: »

I am due for my annual flu jab which is usually carried out at my NHS surgery. Would there be any benefit to have my flu jab at my local chemist or supermarket with regards to more protection from different flu strains?

Go to your GP.

They all get paid for each jab so it may as well go to your GP and NOT to Boots, etc to go in their dividends to shareholders

pmduk

capital0ne wrote: »

Go to your GP.

They all get paid for each jab so it may as well go to your GP and NOT to Boots, etc to go in their dividends to shareholders

So the fees go to the partners that own the practice?

Cyclizine

pmduk wrote: »

So the fees go to the partners that own the practice?

The partners pay for everything in the practice: they only get about £150 per patient per year funding, so vaccination payments just go towards rent, utilities, staff wages and pensions, equipment, etc, etc..

Mrs_pbradley936

I had mine this morning. If you are over 65 then it covers 3 strains this year and has an extra "something" to boost it.

If you are under 65 then it covers 4 strains. Some people under 65 get it on the NHS. If you have to pay it is £9 in Tescos.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/over-65s-miss-out-on-2018-quadruple-flu-jab.156315/

Lorian

I had the Sanofi quadrivalent jab. According to the leaflet it contains the following inactivated, split strains:

A/Michigan/45/2015, NYMC X-275
A/Singapore/INFIMH-16-0019/2016, IVR-186
B/Maryland/15/2016, NYMC BX-69A
B/Phuket/3073/2013 - Wild Type