Have you had to travel for your vaccination?

I was lucky and got into my local GP surgery for mine and had it this morning. Walked down there around 20 min walk and was in and out within 5 mins and back home within the hour.

Wow didn't realise people were having to travel so far. Our local sports centre has been turned into a vaccination clinic. I could have easily walked there. They have a bus going there from a nearby town also

I travelled about 20 miles for mine - I called our GP when I got my letter but they didn't have any slots so went on line. I wanted to get it done sooner rather than later and can drive myself so booked it

I went online and booked to travel 20 miles for mine. That was on a Friday. On Monday I got a call from the surgery offering me a slot a couple of days after my already booked appointment.
Apart from the faff of cancelling my date at the hub I was looking forward to a day out.
Washed my hair, got a bit dressed up and had a valid and legal reason for being out and seeing some of the countryside.

We were lucky and went to our own GP about 5 miles away, our nearest vaccination hub was 18 miles away so not too far.

Both myself and my husband booked ours on the NHS site, received our vaccinations a day later at a centre 10 mins from the house. The letter from the GP telling us to book an appointment using the NHS site arrived the day following our jab. Our area has been incredibly efficient with several doctors surgeries and a large vaccination hub all working flat out. We wouldn't have minded travelling a hundred miles or attending in the small hours if it meant we could receive the vaccine, but appreciate, some people cannot travel for various reasons.
We're both 67.

I had a text informing me that my cohort would be contacted shortly. The next day a text invited to select via a link when i would like to attend and informing me that it would be done at a centre about 2 miles from home no other options but contact details if you wished to discuss or chose not to attend .. Within a few days vaccine was given. Easy peasy and no major side effect apart from a heavy arm and chills the next day. Friends have either been called by GP practice or invited by text to book an appointment. Some from outlying villages attended in town about 10 miles away but on bus route. Also volunteer drivers were offered if unable to get yourself there.

We both had to travel from our home to somwhere close to our GP practise, maybe 2 miles tops. However, we live in a large city and a group of local GP practices got together to provide a hub for vaccinations. Cost around £5 by taxi.

I received 3 separate letters over 2 days from the NhS giving me the choice of 4 locations, 30 miles each to Bath Racecourse, Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucester Royal Hospital or 20 miles East at a pharmacy. Having booked on line (it took me half an hour) for the pharmacy for both vaccinations, 3 days later I received a message from my GP practice asking me to make an appt at the local hospital 5 miles away. Until I worked out how to answer the ‘do not reply’ messages, I received a daily reminder. It was too complicated to change the appointment so I discovered the delights of an obscure pharmacy in the depths of an East Swindon housing estate. What a kerfuffle ? Very grateful to get the vaccination however!

I manage a vaccination centre but husband had to travel 30 miles to get his. We looked on it as a day out.

Hello there.
If u go on the Gov vaccine website you can book it direct .

My DH got a letter, he is 61, and the closest centre was over 13 miles away, as the crow flies. The furthest was 54 miles away, at atcf. I didn't book, and two days later checked again, and there were appointments in the next town, in 3 weeks. I got a GP text on Monday, went online to book and I have my appointment this Friday at a town about 8 miles away. So we are both sorted for our first jab, his second is booked, but I have to wait for another GP text to book my second.

Feel really lucky we had ours over 3 weeks ago 67 & 68, 10mins drive to local health centre, no underlying health issues.

I had mine on Monday at one of the centres that are popping up for vaccinating on a large scale. I was lucky enough to get booked in to one that is 10 minutes up the road. My husband had to go further away, about a 45 minute drive each way. They only seem to be vaccinating vulnerable people at the surgeries here.

I'm in the 65 to 69 age group.. My nearest vaccination centre online has changed every day but never nearer than a 90 mile round trip for me .. I've kept going online as advised but sometimes it's been 150 mile round trip.. I got my first letter from the NHS on 9th Feb and my 2nd on 28th Feb to remind me I am in the vulnerable group.. How happy was I today that my doctors surgery rang to say I can go there on Friday.. It is 5 minutes from where I live. I live on the East Coast of Yorkshire.

My husband had to travel 30 miles to York he is 65.l am going tomorrow again 30 miles to York.It was the nearest for us or phone everyday to get somewhere nearer as l waited 25mins to speak to anyone decided just to book it.

Meant to say that OH is just over 70 and I am just under so we were indifferent lists. DD’s in laws ten years older at the same surgery had theirs done by the district nurse.

My OH had his about 6m from here, found via a link someone put on here. There was a choice of about 6 different places.

I had a phone call about 10 days after from our surgery offering an appointment the next day about two mikes away. I accepted but got the impression there was some flexibility if need be.

Our nearest is 12 miles, some are a lot further

I had to drive 15 miles each way to get my jab. What a joy, I felt a sense of freedom being able to go out of my immediate area. Am looking forward to my 2nd jab now!

My friends have been able to go to their doctors and me and my husband have to travel 10 miles, for both vaccines. Let’s hope it works as there are not only one covid decease around.

I and DH had ours in February. He was contacted by our GP surgery, I received an invite to apply online. The only locations offered were in Dorset, Wiltshire or Suffolk. We live on the Isle of Wight so the cost of ferries and travel etc would have made it a very expensive and tiring journey. However, I found if I applied at a different time of day (early morning or late evening) more locations were available, and I got one just 7 miles away at a new vaccination centre. On the day there were no queues and the medical personnel vastly outnumbered the patients. I'll be returning there in April for my 2nd jab.

We have local voluntary groups that offer transport anyway to various GP and hospital appointments, also a ‘cabs for jabs scheme, funded buy Go fund me sites.
My jab was at a local GP surgery providing vaccinations for 5 GP practices, my DH’s will be at a bigger hub, about seven miles away.

My DSiL (34 with underlying health condition) was booked at a venue about a 10 mile round trip away. He has no transport, but no problem - he went by skateboard! Clinician said they had never seen that before. DSiL said the next day his legs ached more than his arm!

I am in St Lucia and had to drive to part of 5he island 40 mins away from our home. They did most over 65s before I got there and there would have been about 100 people waiting but they did my vaccination fairly quickly given my age ...86 and health condition. We had to be interviewed twice and then we got Astra Zeneca ...my son (58) was allowed in with me and given his first vaccination too. We get the second on April 30th and we are so grateful. When I listen to UK radio or watch TV I think the UK has done a great job about vaccinating.