Booking Covid-19 Booster Jab. 182 days or 180 days after 2nd jab.

grumpyoldwoman

unforeseen said:

I had my booster but it will get recorded as my third dose. I will have another dose in 5 months which will be my booster. 

I had my 3rd dose last Tuesday with my booster due in 6 months, but when I looked at my record for vaccinations it's down as a booster so I'm going to have to contact my GP about why it's been recorded wrongly. I had Moderna and was told at the time that I was having a full dose whereas the booster was half a dose.

silvercar

grumpyoldwoman said:

unforeseen said:

I had my booster but it will get recorded as my third dose. I will have another dose in 5 months which will be my booster. 

I had my 3rd dose last Tuesday with my booster due in 6 months, but when I looked at my record for vaccinations it's down as a booster so I'm going to have to contact my GP about why it's been recorded wrongly. I had Moderna and was told at the time that I was having a full dose whereas the booster was half a dose.

They are all coded the same at the moment, we have no way of coding them differently. Someone is going to have a massive data exercise in splitting the thirds vaccines off at some point.

My personal view (only) is that this has been going on too long for any attempt to be made to correct this. When those who had thirds, coded as boosters, turn up for their boosters  the system will then recode the boosters as thirds at the same time as registering the boosters. It’s not ideal, not least because it relies on GP surgeries to again identify those who need a booster to their thirds, but it would be a solution.
It’s less important for those that had Pfizer as boosters and thirds are identical. For those that had Moderna, it means that whether you had a half dose or full is not being recorded.

grumpyoldwoman

Thanks @silvercar for explaining it, hopefully it will sort itself out in time.

Jonty6262

I know you may get the flu jab at the same time as your booster  but can you have the pneumonia jab as well? Or the pneumonia and covid jab together? 

silvercar

Jonty6262 said:

I know you may get the flu jab at the same time as your booster  but can you have the pneumonia jab as well? Or the pneumonia and covid jab together? 

In theory yes as none are “live” vaccines.

Your chances of side effects are greater the more vaccines you have at the same time, so it is better to spread them out. That said if attending at a clinic is difficult for you and you really would prefer just one outing, them most covid vac centres would give covid jab with or after a recent flu or pneumonia jab.

The same isn’t true of shingles as that is a live vaccine.

unforeseen

grumpyoldwoman said:

unforeseen said:

I had my booster but it will get recorded as my third dose. I will have another dose in 5 months which will be my booster. 

I had my 3rd dose last Tuesday with my booster due in 6 months, but when I looked at my record for vaccinations it's down as a booster so I'm going to have to contact my GP about why it's been recorded wrongly. I had Moderna and was told at the time that I was having a full dose whereas the booster was half a dose.

I found info on the NHS site that says that for those due a 3rd dose the booster will get re-classed as the third dose a little later

Notepad_Phil

RG2015 said:

I have just been on the NHS site for booking a Covid-19 Booster vaccine appointment. It says the following:

"You'll be offered appointment dates from 182 days (6 months) after the date of your 2nd dose."

When I booked on Monday, I entered my NHS number and the dates I was offered started 180 days after the date of my second jab. My second jab was on a Sunday and they allowed me to book the Friday 180 days after this.

I am probably worrying over nothing and am sure that there will be no problems on the day. However, the NHS IT programmers have clearly not synchronised their website information with the booking dates.

Has anyone else noticed this and do you think I am perfectly fine to rely on the website date calculation?
 

I don't want to worry you, but I only came on here to check on a similar matter as I had just heard from a friend that an acquaintance of their's has said that they'd been turned back from their booster appointment because they were a few days short of the 6 month period. Apparently they were told there was a glitch on the booking system, but I don't know how true that story is and what exactly they were told.

My booster is 182 days after my 2nd dose which will be okay providing the 6 months is used as a guide for people to know when the booster is due, but that it's the 182 days (26 weeks) which is the actual basis on when the booster can be given. i.e. for me the booster is 1 day short of the 6 month period but it is 182 days after the 2nd dose.

I'm considering rebooking to ensure that I'll be okay when I turn up.

RG2015

Notepad_Phil said:

RG2015 said:

I have just been on the NHS site for booking a Covid-19 Booster vaccine appointment. It says the following:

"You'll be offered appointment dates from 182 days (6 months) after the date of your 2nd dose."

When I booked on Monday, I entered my NHS number and the dates I was offered started 180 days after the date of my second jab. My second jab was on a Sunday and they allowed me to book the Friday 180 days after this.

I am probably worrying over nothing and am sure that there will be no problems on the day. However, the NHS IT programmers have clearly not synchronised their website information with the booking dates.

Has anyone else noticed this and do you think I am perfectly fine to rely on the website date calculation?
 

I don't want to worry you, but I only came on here to check on a similar matter as I had just heard from a friend that an acquaintance of their's has said that they'd been turned back from their booster appointment because they were a few days short of the 6 month period. Apparently they were told there was a glitch on the booking system, but I don't know how true that story is and what exactly they were told.

My booster is 182 days after my 2nd dose which will be okay providing the 6 months is used as a guide for people to know when the booster is due, but that it's the 182 days (26 weeks) which is the actual basis on when the booster can be given. i.e. for me the booster is 1 day short of the 6 month period but it is 182 days after the 2nd dose.

I'm considering rebooking to ensure that I'll be okay when I turn up.

This is on the website (see link below).

"You'll be offered appointment dates from 182 days (6 months) after the date of your 2nd dose."

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/book-or-manage-a-booster-dose-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine/

However, to be safe, I have changed the appointment from 180 days to 183 days.

Thanks for the heads up, even if the 180 days would have been fine.

Jonty6262

silvercar said:

Jonty6262 said:

I know you may get the flu jab at the same time as your booster  but can you have the pneumonia jab as well? Or the pneumonia and covid jab together? 

In theory yes as none are “live” vaccines.

Your chances of side effects are greater the more vaccines you have at the same time, so it is better to spread them out. That said if attending at a clinic is difficult for you and you really would prefer just one outing, them most covid vac centres would give covid jab with or after a recent flu or pneumonia jab.

The same isn’t true of shingles as that is a live vaccine.

I guess the new shingrix shingles vaccine would be ok

Notepad_Phil

RG2015 said:

Notepad_Phil said:

RG2015 said:

I have just been on the NHS site for booking a Covid-19 Booster vaccine appointment. It says the following:

"You'll be offered appointment dates from 182 days (6 months) after the date of your 2nd dose."

When I booked on Monday, I entered my NHS number and the dates I was offered started 180 days after the date of my second jab. My second jab was on a Sunday and they allowed me to book the Friday 180 days after this.

I am probably worrying over nothing and am sure that there will be no problems on the day. However, the NHS IT programmers have clearly not synchronised their website information with the booking dates.

Has anyone else noticed this and do you think I am perfectly fine to rely on the website date calculation?
 

I don't want to worry you, but I only came on here to check on a similar matter as I had just heard from a friend that an acquaintance of their's has said that they'd been turned back from their booster appointment because they were a few days short of the 6 month period. Apparently they were told there was a glitch on the booking system, but I don't know how true that story is and what exactly they were told.

My booster is 182 days after my 2nd dose which will be okay providing the 6 months is used as a guide for people to know when the booster is due, but that it's the 182 days (26 weeks) which is the actual basis on when the booster can be given. i.e. for me the booster is 1 day short of the 6 month period but it is 182 days after the 2nd dose.

I'm considering rebooking to ensure that I'll be okay when I turn up.

This is on the website (see link below).

"You'll be offered appointment dates from 182 days (6 months) after the date of your 2nd dose."

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/book-or-manage-a-booster-dose-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine/

However, to be safe, I have changed the appointment from 180 days to 183 days.

Thanks for the heads up, even the 180 days would have been fine.

Just been on to the booster web page and the next available date for me is nearly 3 weeks after the original date that they gave me, so I'll probably go ahead with the original date and hopefully all will be well and that the 182 day difference is the bit that really matters.