Drs being paid £10 for home Covid vaccine vacs

EllanVannin

Sign of the times Gone are the days when they'd " just pop in to see Mrs Smith while in the same area ".

EV or maybe Mrs Walsh a bit deja vue don't you think ?

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It’s not the person who gives the vaccine that is paid but the practice . As said above, the practice will be providing PPE and paying any travel expenses. Apart from travel time, any home visit takes longer than just administering the vaccine in a clinic. As for cost, compare the cost of a home visit to vaccinate with the cost of an unvaccinated person catching COVID and going to hospital

As far as I understand things, it's the GP practice that receives the money. They are basically private businesses contracted to the NHS.

I can't see a problem to be honest.

Gone are the times when their practices were small enough for them to be able to do that, EV.

GPs are still working in local surgeries. They are doing telephone consultations and face to face consultations too. They will have to go into houses where the virus is already perhaps and use their own transport to do so. This is a time of a global pandemic where the NHS are stressed beyond belief, where doctors and nurses are at risk ,are working crazy hours and you are quibbling over them getting £10? I wouldn't do their job and I'm more than grateful to each and every one of them.

Sign of the times Gone are the days when they'd " just pop in to see Mrs Smith while in the same area ".

Now.....not sure about this but I'm sure someone (many even) will correct me. I think doctors currently receive a payment for each vaccination carried out within their practices. I thought this recently mentioned payment was perhaps a travelling/inconvenience redress.

We just made the same comment. I was surprised to see it was the GP doing the home jabs. I would have expected a nurse to do it. Are there still district nurses? Housebound friends of mine had their normal flu jabs at home from a nurse. I would have expected it to come under the normal financial arrangement.

I'd need to know more about the size of their practices and how many home visits they're going to have to do before having a 'solid' opinion on this.

How much travelling will they have to do, for instance? Will they get travel expenses as well or is the £10 per visit meant to cover that as well? Does the £10 cover the cost of all the disposable PPE they're going to have to use? Is it personal payment or payment to GP practices?

I'm sure there are other valid questions as well.