Calendargirl
kevincharley
You may be able to book them but it doesn't necessarily mean you have the vaccination now. They may be taking advanced bookings.
Just a reminder: GP surgeries order enough vaccines for all their eligible patients. If, as an eligible patient, you have your vaccine at a pharmacy, you are then wasting the vaccine your GP has ordered.
How do pharmacies do it? Do they order on the basis of how many they used the previous year? Do they also waste a lot, or do they ‘run out’?
Perhaps the GP surgeries need to do things differently, if they have a number of wasted vaccines. Why do we then hear there are shortages? Could some of the ‘spare’ ones be sent to where they are needed?
Sorry, I've never worked at a pharmacy so I don't know their procedures.
I suppose, in the end, who you choose, is dependent on where you want NHS money to go. Back into the GP's surgery or into a company like Boots or Lloyds.