65 to 69 and shielding

[Dizzart]

Just managed to finally get through to my doctors practice in North Walsham and having waited in great anticipation for a call for my covid inoculation I have been told sorry 65 to 69 year olds can’t have one here you have to go to a different site . Ring or go on line. Evidently they said it’s the governments orders !!!!!!? I’m i the only mug patiently waiting all this time from my doctors practice or are there others in this area still waiting but no one can be bothered to let them know . If so they should be warned.

[twinkly29]

When things moved on from Groups 1-4, the announcement was just that - Group 5 (so 65-69) would be offered vaccine centres so that Group 6 could be vaccinated by GPs due to many having underlying conditions, thereby actually doing 2 groups at once.

2 points though:

- someone's age group (of over 64) even if they consider themselves to have a group 6 condition trumps the health condition so if you are 65-69 you are group 5 not 6

- group 5 patients can wait for GP availability but the inference was that they would be fine after group 6.

[Dizzart in reply to twinkly29]

Thanks twinkle I must say your reply is so complicated I’ve lost the plot but many of us “ more mature “ patients in Norfolk villages know nothing and are still so old fashioned we still expect to have our doc ring. Oh and the rural poor and elderly also have no wi fi

[twinkly29 in reply to Dizzart]

Sorry! It was said as part of the news update at the time 🤷‍♀️

[Dizzart in reply to twinkly29]

Thank you Twinkly I’m afraid there’s a lot of outlying rural areas in Britain where even people such as a good friend of mine with a serious lung problem hear nothing unless their gp is kind enough to ring . Some of us oldies still assume nothing has changed and gps are going to remember them 🤞

[Melanie1989]

Hi Dizzart I am very near you, and my mum who is in the same age bracket with no serious underlying conditions were contacted by their g.p and had it at their surgery. My dad who is exactly the same age as my mum is at a different surgery but has heard nothing...

I think it is pot luck as to what G.P surgery you are under and how fast they are getting through the groups. My G.P surgery are way ahead, so this may have been why.

This seems kind of unfair and their should be a universal approach, I hope you get it soon.

[Dizzart in reply to Melanie1989]

Thanks Melanie yes I think it totally depends on how caring your gp is and I don’t think many people realise how the more mature in remoter country areas can’t or don’t use wi fi , ie if it’s not in the local paper or heard in the village shop a huge quantity of Britain’s know nothing. Thank you so much for your reply and thank goodness your dad has you to help him 😊

[Thomas45]

It appears there is a Public Health England vaccination centre at North Walsham Community Centre. Public Health England are sending our letters inviting people to be vaccinated. The Centre was set up on February 2nd.The alternative is to wait for your GP practice to contact your.

If am in the 75-79 age group in Lincolnshire. My letter came on a Saturday from Public Health England, and the GP practice letter was received four days later. We had our jabs three days after the GPs letter.

I'm sure it won't be long for you to wait.

There are 3.32 million aged 70-74, and 3.37 million aged 65-69, and an unknown to me number of 18-64 year olds who are clinically vulnerable.

Around half a million people are being vaccinated each day, so not counting the clinically vulnerable it would take about twelve days after the 75-79 age group who apppear to have been offered the jab.

[Dizzart in reply to Thomas45]

Thank you Thomas as I did go to look at the community centre one in North Walsham but stupidly as a highly vulnerable at risk 69 still waited for the Birchwood gps. To contact me. I rang 3 times and on the last go finally found a nice enough person to look up my records and I should be in the at risk group. I was offered an appointment instantly but it doesn’t help others with no wi fi and isolating due to health problems such as my 72 year old friend with lung problems, I have had to text her all the details on my form as she knew nothing and seems to have been forgotten like me. Do hope not to many others in rural Norfolk suffer this . Give my love to Lincolnshire as I went to school in Old Clee 👌

[Thomas45 in reply to Dizzart]

Glad to hear you're now sorted. My late mother was born in Old Clee and her mother is buried there, and my mother's brother is remembered on her mother's grave. He was killed in the first world war.

My sister caught polio in the 1947 epidemic.

[Dizzart in reply to Thomas45]

I miss North Lincolnshire I loved it there but I left age 15 , so it wouldn’t be as I remember it, I have felt very tempted to go back to look but perhaps it’s best to remember it as it was. The old fish docks , the Humber river etc etc.Enjoy your summer as much as you can , so lucky to live near the sea 👍🏻👍🏻