Drs being paid £10 for home Covid vaccine vacs

Oops, sorry both.

I don’t see a problem with that at all a tradesman would charge about £40 as a call out fee, maybe more, when there are so many places to go to get the vaccines and most (of course not all) but most have someone family, friend or neighbour who can take them or even a taxi as a one off £10 to have a doctor come to the house doesn’t see a lot to me
I think we often expect too much

MaizieD if your vet only charges £30 call out fee you are extremely lucky. Ours charges £85 + VAT!

Ah well, GG13, that's one of the benefits of living far from the centre of civilisation.

MaizieD

^MaizieD if your vet only charges £30 call out fee you are extremely lucky. Ours charges £85 + VAT!^

Ah well, GG13, that's one of the benefits of living far from the centre of civilisation.

There are a few at our yard who thinks he charges according to the car you drive, might have to buy an old banger

Doctors do get paid for vaccinations - flu included. It is part of the Practices overall financial payments. Has been for years. The person doing these vaccinations could be a GP, Practice Nurse, Community Nurse, Health Care Assistant etc but the money is paid to the Practices by the government. They also get paid for health checks for certain groups of illnesses. It ensures patients have regular checks. Part of a Practice Manager's role is managing the finances and checking that everything is kept up to date or they lose money. The money allows GPs to employ nurses, health care assistants and reception staff or else we would not have GP Practices any more.

Some people who are giving vaccinations are being paid directly. My sister in law is a health visitor who normally works part time, she has volunteered to work on her days off to give vaccinations and is paid for those days. There is a standard fee, not based on her normal pay and although I don’t know how much it is, she thinks it is very generous.

I would have been only too pleased to pay for home visit for elderly mother to have had vaccine at home instead of having to take her to a not very local hospital, at 99 she is not very mobile.

allium

I would have been only too pleased to pay for home visit for elderly mother to have had vaccine at home instead of having to take her to a not very local hospital, at 99 she is not very mobile.

Did the surgery refuse to do a home visit? If so, I’d be on to them and asking for a home visit for the second vaccine. The idea of paying for a home visit vaccine is not on the table at all and nor should it be.

allium
You don’t have to pay for the home visit, the state pays the GP Practice for any home visit vaccinations they need to do at £10 per visit. The person who arrives to do the vaccination may be a doctor, but equally may be the Practice nurse. Whoever it is, the Practice will be paid, not the individual. At no point does the patient pay.

My mum (finally!) hit her jab this morning. A young doctor came to the house to do it. He’s working all weekend and tomorrow and Tuesday just doing home visit vaccines. The two main partners in the practice have just retired so these are doctors new to the area, they don’t yet know their way around the tiny streets of town or the hilly glens of the rural hinterlands. And they’re grappling through blizzards and ice.

They’d deserve every penny of the £10 even if it was going direct into their pockets, which it isn’t!

had her jab. Afaik, no one got hit!