COVID spring booster

[Martin62]

Hi All , I booked my COVID booster on the NHS website and today went to my pharmacy to get it , only to be told that I don't qualify for it. I checked with my GP who confirmed that it is only for a smaller criteria of people and the website should not of allowed me to book it. Apparently Diabetics will be eligible for the winter one though.
Martin

 

[silentsquirrel]

Same as last year, and possibly also the year before. OH qualified as over 75.

 

[Robin]

Same here, I don’t qualify, but OH did, because he’s over 75.

 

[gail2]

i qualeefied but im 59 plus i live in a residental home dont know if this makes a differance

 

[silentsquirrel]

i qualeefied but im 59 plus i live in a residental home dont know if this makes a differance

Not because of your age or diabetes - I am 74 so only just missed. Probably the residential thing qualifies you.

 

[Martin.A]

The Governement says that the only groups qualifying for the Spring booster are adults aged 75 years and over, residents in a care home for older adults and individuals aged 6 months and over who have a weakened immune system. I haven't booked mine yet - I have until the 17th June.

 

[helli]

If you are the kind of person who prefers to be vaccinated, it is worthwhile keeping an eye out for clinical trials.
I am not entitled to the doing COVID booster on the NHS but instead getting COVID as part of a trial where I also get flu and shingles.
In the past i got a covid jab when I was not vulnerable because they were trialling spikevax.
The trials I have been offered all include certainty that I will get the covid jab.

I got on the local mailing list during the pandemic when I was reading everything I could about covid and spotted the request.
I assume you could contact your local hospital and ask about their research department.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Apparently Diabetics will be eligible for the winter one though.

I don't think that's been announced yet. The last I saw, JCVI was proposing a dramatically smaller group of people (which wouldn't include diabetes and (bizarrely, IMHO) wouldn't include pregnant people).

 

[Lucyr]

Hi All , I booked my COVID booster on the NHS website and today went to my pharmacy to get it , only to be told that I don't qualify for it. I checked with my GP who confirmed that it is only for a smaller criteria of people and the website should not of allowed me to book it. Apparently Diabetics will be eligible for the winter one though.
Martin

Why did you try booking one - if you just have diabetes you shouldn’t have been invited to book one. If you were invited to then presumably you have other conditions to meet the criteria

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Why did you try booking one - if you just have diabetes you shouldn’t have been invited to book one. If you were invited to then presumably you have other conditions to meet the criteria

Invitations seem a bit hit or miss. Might depend where you are, but apparently my mother quite often isn't invited so my brother has to go ahead and book one, though I've always got an invitation.

 

[khskel]

I got an invite but apparently qualified because of .my Ulcerative Colitis

 

[silentsquirrel]

Why did you try booking one - if you just have diabetes you shouldn’t have been invited to book one. If you were invited to then presumably you have other conditions to meet the criteria

In the past we have waited for an invitation but by then all the local times had gone. Being more proactive meant OH could walk a few hundred yards rather than 10-15 miles.

 

[Lucyr]

In the past we have waited for an invitation but by then all the local times had gone. Being more proactive meant OH could walk a few hundred yards rather than 10-15 miles.

I wouldn’t try and book one unless I knew I was eligible though, so by trying to book one either you were invited or you know you’re eligible surely

 

[Bazarama]

Funnily enough, I was invited and went today. Embarrassingly told I wasn’t qualified even though I explained the invite. After 15 mins of being told I didn’t qualify and was taken someone else’s place/medicine it was administered as she had a duty to give me it as I was invited. Frustrating and embarrassing that I explained that I was only doing what was instructed. I’d said if I don’t need it then I’ll leave but she was insistent even though I shouldn’t qualify ‍♂️

 

[Leadinglights]

73 and I was invited so went, arm more tender than previously and for longer.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’ve not heard about the Covid Boosters this time around!

Sorry you had a bit of a runaround with the appointment system mistakenly allowing you to book a slot @Martin62

Hope it wasn’t too much of a faff!

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I’ve not heard about the Covid Boosters this time around!

Sorry you had a bit of a runaround with the appointment system mistakenly allowing you to book a slot @Martin62

Hope it wasn’t too much of a faff!

No, just having diabetes hasn't qualified us for the Spring one. The open question is whether we'll get one in the autumn, I think.

 

[Lucyr]

No, just having diabetes hasn't qualified us for the Spring one. The open question is whether we'll get one in the autumn, I think.

Sounds like they’re planning on cutting the list down then too

 

[grovesy]

I only knew they were doing boosters as my local Pharmacy were doing them.

 

[eggyg]

I haven’t had an invite, and when I think about it I didn’t last spring either, but I was classed as extremely vulnerable during the pandemic as I don’t have a spleen. I’ve either slipped through the net or I’ve been downgraded! I’m not bothered, I may mention it at my blood letting appointment next month.