Text message for UK patients

[nanasu]

Reading today that those of us who are vulnerable to covid 19 will be getting a text message as to what to do etc.

[Newdawn Administrator]

The NHS are supposedly contacting the most vulnerable ‘at risk’ groups from the 23rd March but I expect it will more likely to be by letter than text. Where did you read that it will be by text nanasu? They won’t have numbers for many of us apart from landlines and I anticipate it will be a longer, explanatory list of dos and don’t suggestions. It’s properly quite a mammoth task for them as I understand they are coming from our already overstretched GP surgeries.

I don’t expect these letters to be individualistic just a standard letter formulated by the Dept of Health.

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[nanasu in reply to Newdawn]

Something article I read on Yahoo news.

Found it but privacy tips are telling me not to post due to personal info showing. If Any tips on how to get round that would help please.

[Newdawn Administrator in reply to nanasu]

You just click to say yes post it as long as it’s not naming third parties who haven’t given consent or subject to copyright nanasu.

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[nanasu in reply to nanasu]

Just reread the article and it says text or letter. My apologies for the confusion. Need to read things properly

Sorry

[Hidden in reply to Newdawn]

Will they use the flu jab list? Each year this comes by text. Not sure if from government or doctor’s, though I respond direct to the doctors.

Who knows we wait!

[Newdawn Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I think this is for the ‘mega’ at risk devon not the huge amounts of people who qualify for the flu jab but as you say, who knows. This list;

Note: there are some clinical conditions which put people at even higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19. If you are in this category, next week the NHS in England will directly contact you with advice about the more stringent measures you should take in order to keep yourself and others safe. For now, you should rigorously follow the social distancing advice in full, outlined below.

You may be at a particularly high risk of getting seriously ill with coronavirus if you:

* have had an organ transplant and are taking immunosuppressant medicine

* are having chemotherapy or radiotherapy

* have blood or bone marrow cancer, such as leukaemia

* have a severe chest condition, such as cystic fibrosis or severe asthma

* have another serious health condition

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[fapumpkin]

I wondered where you heard this. I am due my next haematology/Ibrutinib 8 April and I haven’t heard anything. Rang Sainsburys home delivery and was told that the government are supplying information about who are priority for deliveries, but I am worried as I moved house 3 weeks ago that my new address will not have been update.

[Newdawn Administrator in reply to fapumpkin]

It’s from this guidance fapumpkin;

gov.uk/government/publicati...

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[Jm954 Administrator in reply to Newdawn]

thanks Newdawn