GPs moaning that they haven't been given any warning about the vaccine

You thought wrong. Use your brain, if you have one.

 

I understood they will be given at NHS hubs. In our case that could be the main NHS trust hospitals
in Sheffield and Leeds. Watched a GP on the 6 o'clock News. She claimed because of the need to
keep the vaccine at 70 degrees, it is not plausible to give residents in Care Homes and those who
care for them the first shots. The implications were that the reason was down to storage and general
practical logistics. They were saying to be fully effective, that sector might have to wait for the Oxford
vaccine to come on stream.

 

Thank you nice bedside manner there fella. Good night.

 

I’m sorry for being so curt and apologise for that, but I can’t sit here and let a lot of the stuff posted above pass - it’s just not right. I have someone sat right next to me who is killing herself for our nhs, for you, me, your friends and family and to read some of that ***** just takes the piss.

 

I'd just like to say my GP's are excellent. I can usually get in within a reasonable time and I have received excellent advice over the last few years. I have no doubt my surgery will handle the vaccine appropriately once it is rolled out and no doubt there will be a suitable timescale and priority list to deal with it. I don't get all the negativity.

 

There was someone from some GP organisation on radio Sheffield yesterday. I'm not sure exactly who he was but he was speaking on behalf of GPs and was complaining about the short notice they've been given and how it was all such a shock to them which is absolute rubbish as there are 10 year olds who've known about the vaccine development for 9 months

 

I can assure you, they’re very well briefed. I have been very critical of the govt but the one thing they have right is this - it’s very well organised

 

I couldn`t get to the doctors and couldn`t get no contact and that was the point I was making about my own circumstances at my own medical centre even though it was in reply to a post about GP`S in general at the outset.

Maybe I wanted to see the doc in regards to if he could find if I do have a brain or not. or maybe I was after a second opinion.

 

That's what I thought. Even if they weren't well briefed surely theyve got the common sense to make their own provisional plans. It's a bit like the shops who, when told they could reopen said they would need a couple of weeks to make layout changes and prepare their stores or the schools who said the same. Acting like it came as a shock to them.

 

Oh chef.... It was written with the tongue firmly in the cheek: don't be going all 'jay' on us

 

One of my long term friends from school is a GP in West Yorkshire, Bradford area, they were written to formally back in early November and practices have been planning as best they can for several months, albeit without the final time frame for both the vaccines being approved and rolled out.

I think it's reasonable to say that the announcement last week about the vaccines being ready was "short notice" and they are now working on final logistics to deliver this. All in the context of a significant shortage of GP's nationally, they are getting a 25% higher fee per vaccination compared to the flu jab, but obviously have to deliver this and everything else wihh existing resources.

The Northern General Hospital have had the required refrigeration equipment (or some of it anyway) already delivered to site, so the collaborative effort is starting to bear fruit as I see it.

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Sorry mate you should have done a tongue in cheek emoji

 

But when you dont know the exact rules it us hard to plan. You can only do so much.

 

What is the false news? Well if you look at the heading for this thread it is.....

GPs moaning that they haven't been given any warning about the vaccine

Anyone just glancing and not reading the posts takes this to be true? Gets the impression that GPs haven't been given any warning When that isn't true. So you should be more careful....

 

Or possibly you read it wrong. I said GPs were moaning about that. They were. On BBC radio. Where is the false news? Oh that's right there isn't any.

 

My GP has been fantastic, they’ve expanded their ‘ask my gp’ online service which I’ve used a couple of times and got responses within a couple of hours.

 

No worries.... My wife has had numerous appointments through the first lockdown and thereafter. Her body is pretty wrecked post cancer/chemo and has been referred for and attended numerous scans at bdgh. I have also been seen personally by the doctor and had a finger up the bum : now diagnosed with an enlarged prostate.
The service we have received has been no different than before. It just sometimes taken us up to an hour to get through to speak to somebody (which is certainly similar to before).
I work with doctors: I like them.

 

In which case I recommend Doncaster Royal Infirmary - and their Urology Dept, which is the only one in the region to perform Green Light Laser Prostatectomies which will cure your problem. Though it is not pleasant.

 

No you don't get it, do you?

People don't read it as I heard a programme on Radio Sheffield where I heard that some GPs were saying they had not had notice. What they read is - GPS haven't been given any warning about the vaccine. They don't necessarily go on to read all the details. The impression the thread gives is misleading. Lots of people won't have bothered to read the comments, just looked at the thread headline. Why post it anyway? Another whinge about the government?

 

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