Covid Vaccine

[lankeela]

do you need to take identification? I have to take an elderly lady with dementia for her jab tomorrow and suddenly had a thought that I may have to search for some identification when I pick her up.

[woofgang]

how affected is she? Is she likely to refuse to be vaccinated once she gets there even though she has agreed now? and are you going to a GP run centre or a mega centre?

[bhg481]

No identification where I had mine done - a group of surgeries using a local Working Men's Club premises. They rang to invite me, I turned up at the allocated time, ticked off a list by a marshall organising the short queue and then I was dealt with. It might be different if you book yourself after an invitation letter and go to one of the Hubs they keep telling us about.

[lankeela]

As she is 80 she received an invitation (or rather I did by email as her unpaid carer/contact) via her doctor's surgery, but it is being held at another surgery a few miles away. She will be happy to go if I take her but won't have a clue what its about - I will just tell her its a flu jab.

[EdmundD]

Just got home after having my AstraZeneca vaccination. Appointment was made for me by my GP surgery to go to a Medical Centre. At the door a nurse asked me to confirm my name and date of birth. Didn't ask for ID. Plus a checklist of questions - any Covid symptoms, allergies, recent vaccinations.

Then in I went, got the jab and came home.

[woofgang]

hmmm....if she is that affected and they won't be people who know her...maybe at least take the letter with you and her NHS number?