In your experience, are people who share a house called at the same time for the vaccine.

Nearly 76 not heard anything only two friends in this age group have got dates and both have medical problems one diabetes one heart pacemaker none of my other friends have heard except three over 80 s who ve all had their first and second
Now we are not going to get our second one within the given time frame I m not at all sure how useful these first ones will now be

My brother and sister in law (72 & 71) were vaccinated yesterday, West Sussex. We seem way behind in Bedfordshire.

My 21year old grandayghter abd I share a home, she works in a care home and received her vaccine 3 weeks ago, I am 68 and waiting

Although I am not vulnerable and my husband is, I had a message on my mobile to ask me to ring our surgery to book appointments for vaccine jabs. That was Friday.
Rang surgery Monday and I asked if my husband could attend at the same time...we are both 74. We were given appointments 40minutes apart to attend another medical centre on the Wednesday.
When we both went along for our jabs, we were allowed to go in together. No problems...
Think it all depends a lot on the area you live in, if the surgery can do the jabs in situ or not...also some areas have high or low numbers of folk 75+yrs....
Several of our neighbours are older than we are and go to different Gp surgeries. They are still waiting for appointments...

DH and I (in our 80s) went together. I had a phone call three weeks ago and I asked if DH could go as well, they checked his age and he was given his jab 5 minutes after me. We were both given an appointment for 2nd jab after 3 weeks. After about a week we had a text cancelling 2nd jab. Have heard nothing since.

blossom14

DH (82) had appointment for Tuesday last week. Two minutes after he left the house I (79) had a tel call from GP for Wednesday.

Oh, haven't checked the answer phone! They could have phoned whilst I went with DH for his.

Callistemon is right about ringing,

We can't ring the surgery (strict instructions on their website and also on the local news !).

However, I was in the other day and asked at the dispensary, She said we would get a call (age order) and suggested we ask if the other could come as well. We're 18 months apart and in 70s. Said it would probably be mid February. They do the calls in batches.

DH (82) had appointment for Tuesday last week. Two minutes after he left the house I (79) had a tel call from GP for Wednesday.

My husband of 85 had his before Christmas and I went with him. I’m 71 and they offered it to me so I had it too. He has an appointment for 2nd jab at 10 week interval in Feb - the person on the phone said I couldn’t have an appointment cos I’m not old enough . Hmmmm

Here in Norfolk my 71 year old friend had hers last week but her husband of same age hasn't. I was called yesterday for appointment next week and am in my mid sixties with no underlying health problems although had bowel resection 9 years ago due to cancer scare, although all was well and no treatment needed. Husband 3 years younger so not been called yet. Feel a bit guilty when I read other posts.

Our surgery did their level best to get us both in together although we are in different age categories. They called us on Friday to go immediately as they had a couple of vaccines spare.

We had ours done together last Tuesday. I am 77 and DH is 78. We were eating our lunch and got a phone call from the surgery to say if we could go NOW we could both have the jab.

So we abandoned our lunch and shot off down the road to the Baptist Church where the vaccination centre has been set up with great efficiency. We were straight in, no queuing, sat together in front of the nurse who jabbed me then DH.

We had to sit in a socially distanced area afterwards for 20 mins then were free to go back home to resume our lunch. Felt very grateful and relieved. Never felt the needle go in and neither of us have had any side effects at all.

My FIL 87 had his a week ago and my MIL 80 has hers today.

I think here we're being asked not to phone and to leave the line open for other urgent appointments. DH didn't ask when I would be called when he went today - there seemed to be a very efficient system in operation and he didn't want to interrupt the flow.

if you have an appointment and your DH doesn't, why not just ring your surgery now and ask.

Some of the GP practices where my mum lives are doing the vacc by alphabetical order so if you share a name, I guess you’ll be called at the same time. However, that’s against the JCVI recommendations, so people are quite rightly angry that healthy 70yos are getting their jabs before frail 96yos.

DH who is 82 had his on the 14th, I'm 73 had mine on the 20th. There was a notice saying to carers or those bringing people into the hub not to ask for a vaccination as they only had enough for those with appointments.

PS. I am asthmatic so expect to be called soon.

We are still waiting and my DH is extremely clinically vulnerable, both under 70. My friend who lives in a different county is 65 and she has just had her first jab, her partner is a bit older with health conditions and he had his about three weeks ago. My friend said she was offered hers because she could go up the stairs at the surgery!

DH 76 was vaccinated 10 days ago, on the day he was done I got an appointment for 48 hours later. I don't know any couples done together except my immediate neighbours and they got appointments together for yesterday, they are 72 and 70.
My friend and her DH are exactly the same age, 70,one was done this week and the other hasn't heard yet.
There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to the appointments.

timetogo2016

It sounds ridiculous to not vaccinate a household at the same time.

Not really. More lives will be saved by vaccinating the defined priority categories in order. For example, vaccinating 1000 people aged 80+ will save more lives for those 1000 vaccines than if they are given to mixed age households. It’s been carefully calculated

The 81 year old up the road has had his but not his 71 year old wife.

It sounds ridiculous to not vaccinate a household at the same time.

It seems to be the 80's here too, then presumably they'll work downwards. It's going to be a long-haul for the staff---no wonder they'd been pestering me.

I got my letter this morning inviting me to log in or ring for an appointment, but actually at the moment, they are still trying to get all the over 80ies done, so I could not get an appointment.
DH who is a year young and in a different age bracket, has not yet had his letter, though his health conditions make him more at risk.