NHS app vaccine records

Septimia You would probably find it easier (and possibly more secure) to sign up for Patient Access via your GP. It has the same information as this new app, apart from the vaccination certificate, which you might not need anyway.

A word of caution. On Nextdoor someone has posted that the NHS app for vaccines is not actually run by the NHS and your details could be hacked. Not sure how much I believe this but there is a link posted to lockdownseptics.org/2021/05/23/the-vaccine-passport-update-to-the-nhs-app-has-created-a-honeypot-for-hackers/

What does anyone think?

We spent ages the other day trying to get the NHS app (not the covid one) on our phones. They wanted, understandably really, photo ID. We don't have photo driving licences (still got the old ones!! but not for much longer) and our passports were rejected because they are out of date. They were the only 2 types of ID acceptable. The alternative was to get 3 particular pieces of information from the GP. Reluctantly, DH rang the surgery and asked. The practice manager said it was the NHS, not them (????!!) so they couldn't provide the information and if we looked on the app there's a help section. So we looked. What did it say? Get the information from your GP !! We've given up and are renewing our passports....

Ain’t that the truth, Dustyhen. I asked at my second vacc appointment what would be happening, not that I’m planning on travelling, and they said no one in govt had done anything about it.

It’s all about the Scottish govt throwing its weight about and trying to control us. Look at that ridiculous statement last week that Scottish people shouldn’t go to ‘hot spots’ in the UK, such as Bolton & Bedford. Whilst I agree that of course we should be cautious, how on earth is Scotland going to enforce that?

When we had our second jabs we were told to take a photo as proof we’d had the jabs in case we lost the card. Why didn’t they tell us it would be on the NHS app as opposed to the NHS Covid tracker app. Thanks for the heads up rosie.

SueDonim

Scotland has now launched a vaccine certificate which is easily hacked. Well done.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57208607

Yes I have accessed it and it shows my 2 vaccinations. I haven't heard anything about the English NHS site having hacking problems so why couldn't we just have used that type of system? Sometimes I think we just do different things for the sake of it.

FoghornLeghorn

Annsan

Sadly the app isn’t compatible with my iPhone ( 6). I cannot be the only one who doesn’t believe in upgrading when a phone is perfectly fine...

I have an iPhone 6 and have the fully functioning NHS app on it.

Annsann I have an old phone and can't download a number of apps. If you have a PC, you can download the PC version, which I think is exactly the same. If you're already signed up to PatientAccess at your GP, there doesn't seem to be much difference.

Scotland has now launched a vaccine certificate which is easily hacked. Well done.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57208607

Annsan

Sadly the app isn’t compatible with my iPhone ( 6). I cannot be the only one who doesn’t believe in upgrading when a phone is perfectly fine...

I have an iPhone 6 and have the fully functioning NHS app on it.

NannyC2, and anyone else who has been taken in by the magnet thing, the BBC reality checks the claim here: Covid Vaccines: Could they be magnetic? www.bbc.co.uk/news/57207134

@growstuff I have said the same thing! Having heard some wild conspiracy theories throughout the pandemic from some of my sheeple co-workers and friends, I am sometimes at a loss to know where to begin to even rebut the ridiculous stuff I've heard. It's so far fetched as to defy all reality and logic and yet, they defend it and swear to the nonsense. I fully agree that a critical thinking class in school (maybe several times over the years) should be mandatory, world wide. I don't understand who actually benefits from the promotion of such blatant stupidity. Is is just to prove to themselves that they can get the sheeple to believe literally any nonsense they promote? And then use it to control their vote? Sorry, I seem to have veered a bit off topic!

By the way, if there's anybody out there who doesn't like phones that much, but has a PC or laptop, and already has Patient Access, I downloaded the same info within a minute or so.

The NHS app has the same information as Patient Access, with the addition of my vaccination status, which can be downloaded and printed.

I was very impressed that the vaccine info was updated just one day after I had the second vaccine. And the app updated automatically so the access to the vaccine information is in a separate screen from the rest of my info.

Seems Scotland has a bit of a way to go! This was from 22nd April. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56843281

This from 3rd May www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/3104749/covid-vaccine-proof-dither-claim-as-patients-turned-away/

I couldn't find anything more recent, I am afraid you will have to wait for NHS Scotland to come up with something.

Bluebell. Yes that's the one.

Many thanks for info about the NHS app. I've just downloaded it. You don't have to give reams of information. I was too lazy to get up to find my NHS number so just put in date of birth and post code.

Email to confirm and all done.

Callistemon

I think I'll stick to my card with date and batch number on it.

I'm old-fashioned like that

Same here Callistemon.

I can't believe that if evidence is really that important that an app could be the only evidence.

We don’t even have a tatty old bit of card in Scotland. ?

I think I'll stick to my card with date and batch number on it.

I'm old-fashioned like that

Yes, I fear being kept locked up in Scotland, Dustyhen.

As far as I know 119 is for England. What have people in Scotland to do to show they have had the vaccine? We did not even get a piece of card with info on it let alone have an app! Maybe it's a ploy to keep us here. Or maybe someone can tell me what that plan is for Scotland. I may have missed something somewhere.

Please, please do not phone your surgery for a paper copy, you will get very short shrift! Ring 119 and they will supply you with one.

I don’t think this is available in Scotland. I asked at the vaccination centre how I would be able to prove I’ve been done (not that I’m planning on going anywhere but I like to be prepared). Currently there is no plan, the only way is by phoning your GP to get aletter from them. I’m sure the surgeries will be very happy to be inundated by folk wanting letters so they can travel.

Surgeries seem to be v behind the times where I am. To get registered as an ‘e-patient’ at my surgery involves trawling their website for a form hidden away deep in the small print. You then need to print that out and fill it in, then scan it along with photo ID and either email it to the surgery, on an email address also hidden away, and then wait a couple of months before anyone responses.

Alternatively, you can take the form to the surgery, along with photo ID, although as no one is admitted to the surgery premises now without an appointment, I am not sure how that works. It’s ridiculous, really. The older partners have all retired and most are now under 50yo so you would have thought they’d all be IT savvy but they’re still in the dark ages, it seems.

Just checked. The NHS app won't install on my phone anyway, so a different way of proving vaccination will have to be found for those of us with old phones.

There seems a few NHS apps is it the one that has a blue background and blue NHS on a white band ?

Well is snowing (hailing) in London and massive black thunderstorms in east anglia so you’re the lucky one NannyC2