Vaccination priority groups

[Maiden Stone]

Care home residents, staff & outside care-workers were Scotland's priority. more or less completed!

My health board is starting age 65-79 on 1st Feb. Vaccination venues are leisure and community centres. There are to be 2 vaccination centres in my town, operating 12 hours a day. The main leisure centre near the town centre will be used for the first 7 days of February and a smaller leisure centre in the north of town will be open for 2 days later in the month. People will be invited to a centre depending on their postcode. Mine is the largest town in the district. Smaller towns will have a vaccination centre for 2 or 3 days, some villages for 1 day.
Meanwhile G.P.s are concentrating on housebound and vulnerable people.

Just seen an update. Seems to have been a surge; "later in the month" has been brought forward to middle of month. Health board online calendar for 2nd half of month now has "to be advised" on every date, replacing venues in small towns and villages. Another update says unpaid carers should start getting their 1st jab later this month.   

[cuffie81]

NHS England have been publishing daily, weekly and monthly stats for vaccinations. They've published the latest weekly stats today, covering up to 31 Jan.

The high level numbers, for England as a whole, are below but the numbers by region (see spreadsheet in link) show it's pretty even across regions, at least for those 75+.

Given the high percentage of those aged 75+ that have received their first dose I'd expect the younger groups to get theirs in the near future.

NHS England
COVID-19 Vaccinations

Period 08 Dec 2020 to 31 Jan 2021:
70-74: 35%
75-79: 83%
80+: 88%

Period 08 Dec 2020 to 24 Jan 2021:
80+: 80%

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/

[Bee]

Had a phone call from my local health centre yesterday, both me and my OH are booked in for next Wednesday, we're both getting close to 71. 

[ThrelfallYorky]

We got called for ours, short notice, last Friday. Apparently it was a mistake.... but as we got vaccinated, we're not complaining, it was their mistake, not ours!

[Skoosh]

Phone call on Mon, getting the jag at the local surgery next Tuesday!

Skoosh.

[dowdstree]

I got a letter on the 22nd January offering me a slot on 1st February at our local Community Health Centre. Brilliant I attended and was given my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine. My other half who is 5 years older than me heard nothing until yesterday when he got a call from our GP Surgery and he now has an appointment for Saturday morning at our practice. We fall unto different age categories evidently.

All said and done we are so lucky to have vaccines available and the logistics of delivering it to the whole of the UK are enormous. We will all get our "turn" at some point.

Stay safe

Dorrie

[Familysearch]

They are doing a brilliant job.

Last week I got the nhs letter inviting me to apply miles away. Knew I could wait having read various items on news.
Monday got text from my surgery, and although it took all morning to get through, I was booked in for Wednesday.
Actual surgery being used was extremely well organised, and my jab was done by a retired partner of my own surgery!
FS

[LizzieL]

Our local surgery is now vaccinating group 6  (18 to 64 years old with one of the conditions which make them more at risk). They say that group 5 (65 - 69 year olds) will have to wait for an invitation from NHS England and go to a mass vaccination centre. So we now have the situation where 30 year olds with one of the listed medical conditions are being invited for vaccination ahead of 69 year olds with that same medical condition. They say that has been dictated by NHS England.
Does that make any sense?

[Gadget]

It only makes sense if they have completed all those in the previous 5 groups:

Priority Risk groups
1    Residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults
2    All those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
3    All those 75 years of age and over
4    All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals (not including pregnant women and those under 16 years of age)
5    All those 65 years of age and over
6    Adults aged 16 to 65 years in an at-risk group (see clinical conditions below)
7    All those 60 years of age and over
8    All those 55 years of age and over
9    All those 50 years of age and over
10    Rest of the population (to be determined)