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Don’t forget your covid jabs folks.

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Been laid low for two days now, only took a test this morning, had a video chat with GP this afternoon who wanted to see me straight away because of my shortness of breath. Went to surgery got seen “between appointments” although there was nobody waiting. Sats normal, no chest infection, oxygen levels normal but been given an oximeter JIC. Just have to sit it out now.
Not really had classic symptoms, no cough, no real fever, but totally knackered.
Missus had a cold last week, feels fine now but also tested positive, daughter positive but only has runny nose so far.
Grateful for iPad and remastered concert footage of Genesis in the 70’s heyday. Strange to think that in my early teens I was enthralled by their music, no idea what got me started.
 
Had covid and flu jabs today. Long queue of appointments at the surgery but the production line moved very fast as a doctor on one side and a nurse on the other did synchronised jabbing. I was chucked in with the elderly group who were mostly moaning to each other about their ailments, and making a full about having to queue when they had an appointment. All very entertaining.
 
My and Mrs M2098 have combined covid/ flu and tetanus booked in of a couple of weeks' time. She insisted on tetanus booster after I cut myself in the workshop. Had several in the 70s after motor bike crashes.
 
AndyP said:
Been laid low for two days now, only took a test this morning, had a video chat with GP this afternoon who wanted to see me straight away because of my shortness of breath. Went to surgery got seen “between appointments” although there was nobody waiting. Sats normal, no chest infection, oxygen levels normal but been given an oximeter JIC. Just have to sit it out now.
Not really had classic symptoms, no cough, no real fever, but totally knackered.
Missus had a cold last week, feels fine now but also tested positive, daughter positive but only has runny nose so far.
Grateful for iPad and remastered concert footage of Genesis in the 70’s heyday. Strange to think that in my early teens I was enthralled by their music, no idea what got me started.
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You need to re-introduce yourself to Deep Purple, Marillion, AC/DC ! Checkout the LSO with Deep Purple. Oh and some Blood Sweat and Tears
 
AJB Temple said:
.... I was chucked in with the elderly group who were mostly moaning to each other about their ailments, and making a full about having to queue when they had an appointment. All very entertaining.
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Well, we've done Starmer to death....Didn't take long :ROFLMAO:
 
Malc2098 said:
My and Mrs M2098 have combined covid/ flu and tetanus booked in of a couple of weeks' time. She insisted on tetanus booster after I cut myself in the workshop. Had several in the 70s after motor bike crashes.
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But why should she have a tetanus boost ? :unsure: ;)

Ah, side-car :eek:
 
Malc2098 said:
She insisted on tetanus booster after I cut myself in the workshop. Had several in the 70s after motor bike crashes.
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I believe a tetanus jab is valid for 10 years. At least I have to get a new one every 10 years for a licence I have.
 
Just had mine, one each arm. Crikey! Tata Steel have obviously changed the calibre of the hardware...aches in both arms already. Either that, or the hyper-allergenic genes my daughter discovered (after a gene profile) came from.me! 😳
 
Sod the jab, did you get a badge? SWIMBO had an enhanced variant yesterday at the hospital where she works and always gets a badge, all of which now festoon her NHS ID lanyard. She also yesterday wrangled a spare one for me:cool::cool: - Rob
 
Interesting. When the whole covid malarky started, everyone had a card and we all discussed which vaccine variant we received. That's all out of the window in Kent now - no cards or badges ! and I haev no idea what they jabbed me with. Didn't even occur to me to ask.
 
AJB Temple said:
Interesting. When the whole covid malarky started, everyone had a card and we all discussed which vaccine variant we received. That's all out of the window in Kent now - no cards or badges ! and I haev no idea what they jabbed me with. Didn't even occur to me to ask.
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The details will be on your patient record which you can access through the NHS app or the browser of your choice.

www.nhs.uk

Access your NHS account

Log in to view your health information and manage your healthcare online.
www.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk
 
AndyT said:
The details will be on your patient record which you can access through the NHS app or the browser of your choice.

www.nhs.uk

Access your NHS account

Log in to view your health information and manage your healthcare online.
www.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk
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If you haven't registered for the NHS app then you may need the patience of Job because their 'new' online enrolment program is, as far as I can see, the same as that for the Civilian ID card...the latter reducing me to a gibbering wreck before I voted to abort and thus not waste any more time. It certainly wasn't this CoS when I enrolled some years back.
 
Don't forget that your medical records are classed as sensitive information - and therefore have statutory protection beyond what many ordinary online activity needs. I'm happy for the sign-up to include some checks on who I really am. But I have no recent personal experience to go on.
 
It as me that urged RogerS to persevere and I believe he has now managed to register his Missus online.
Both SWIMBO and I arrived in England 6 years and three days ago, both with significant medical issues, but our (allegedly digitised) records took 8 months to follow us from Belfast...It was the N.H.S. app that smoothed out "continuity of care", especially for The Boss. Developments since have likewise been traceable (and understandable) thanks to its recording function.
One word of warning though, the hospitals north of Newcastle seem.unable to access the app....😲. I don't know if this idiocy is found in trusts countrywide, or is just a Geordie foible, but what.happens in the hospital, stays in the hospital!! You get a bare outline with your discharge letter, and that's it!! F.F.S....hospital computers cannot 'speak' to the over-arching N.H.S. app computer? I bet all my blood tests were done in or near a hospital and I can see them inside 24 hours!
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
One word of warning though, the hospitals north of Newcastle seem.unable to access the app....😲. I don't know if this idiocy is found in trusts countrywide, or is just a Geordie foible, but what.happens in the hospital, stays in the hospital!! You get a bare outline with your discharge letter, and that's it!! F.F.S....hospital computers cannot 'speak' to the over-arching N.H.S. app computer? I bet all my blood tests were done in or near a hospital and I can see them inside 24 hours!
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I had to have some blood tests done a few days before leaving hospital. Having veins near impossible to access I told my consultant it would make sense to do everything as I knew that withing a week or two of getting home my GP would ask for some. Yes, that makes sense, he said, we'll do the lot.
I got home and a couple of weeks later my GP said he wanted some blood tests done. That's OK, I said, thay've all been done. Ah, sorry, he said, we're not privy to hospital tests. How much does this stupidity cost?
 
Phil Pascoe said:
I had to have some blood tests done a few days before leaving hospital. Having veins near impossible to access I told my consultant it would make sense to do everything as I knew that withing a week or two of getting home my GP would ask for some. Yes, that makes sense, he said, we'll do the lot.
I got home and a couple of weeks later my GP said he wanted some blood tests done. That's OK, I said, thay've all been done. Ah, sorry, he said, we're not privy to hospital tests. How much does this stupidity cost?
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True but if it was me I'd have got a set of results from the hospital and taken them with me.
 
AndyT said:
Don't forget that your medical records are classed as sensitive information - and therefore have statutory protection beyond what many ordinary online activity needs. I'm happy for the sign-up to include some checks on who I really am. But I have no recent personal experience to go on.
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I agree but it needs re-doing so that it checks as you go. What you don't want is to come back a couple of hours later (true) to read an email saying...that bit wasn't any good....so you have to start right at the beginning again.
 
Here is a daft NHS thing. 4 weeks ago I saw a very respected specialist who did the most thorough examination ever as he had a student doctor being taught (oddly, people prior to me refused consent to this). He dictated his letter to my GP there and then in front of my wife and me. I had a coffee with my GP last week as we bumped into each other during the cov/flu jab thing and she said by the way I havn't had the letter from Dr X yet. So I emailed his secretary pronto and she replied today saying that it takes 5 to 6 weeks to type the letter and then it has to be proof read by the consultant and posted first class. Email anyone?

Weirdly, it turns out that the letter has in fact been typed and checked now and will be sent out today :unsure: . It's bizarre that something quite trivial like this can create NHS hold ups. I've sat in front of my computer and dictated this post by voice, checked it and told the computer to post it to the forum. A doctor could talk directly to her/his computer instead of a dictating machine, and cut out the typing and delay entirely.
 
Mmm, just been invited for my jags. NHS Scotland seem to be quite good once one gets into the system. All notes are copied to me as well as my GP. Takes about a week. And whilst I am not very old, I appear to have got on the ‘medically sensitive’ list. Goodness knows why. They seem to be obsessed by the idea I will develop cancer. But, as my partner reminds me (with all due respects to Darren Gough who is reputed to have said this originally): ‘They call me rhino, because I’m as strong as an ox’. And I know that is probably irrelevant. Mind you I also have private healthcare as a back up.

If one’s micro-biologist partner says better to have the vaccines than not… well who am I to query.

I would also feel dreadful about potentially infecting my elderly parents, so even if the vacc. means a bit of discomfort for me, that is the decision made.
 
Tiresias said:
Mmm, just been invited for my jags. NHS Scotland seem to be quite good once one gets into the system.
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I’ve never understood why they get referred to as jags in Scotland? The first time I heard it I thought the person meant “jabs” but then I went for my travel vaccinations in Edinburgh and found that wasn’t the case!
 
Blackswanwood said:
I’ve never understood why they get referred to as jags in Scotland? The first time I heard it I thought the person meant “jabs” but then I went for my travel vaccinations in Edinburgh and found that wasn’t the case!
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Well, it’s vernacular, lallans, probably. However, not being a linguist, anything spikey, like a needle. Now in the OED. Partick Thistle are referred to as the jags (possibly the only bit of Scottish soccer trivia I know). And I have heard milk thistle referred to as jaggy thistle. Which seems a bit otiose, but, what have you.
 
AJB , i’ve been told that the nhs’s aversion to email is a result of fears of being sued in the event of a data breach. My sister has a well controlled auto immune problem, for which she needs regular tests, but for some reason the hospital best placed to do the tests is in a different nhs trust to her GP, they won’t email or fax results , by post they take an age, so she has the tests, goes back picks up the results and takes them to her gp.
I broke my arm in wales, they wouldn’t send anything to my gp, i had to request a copy of my information , they sent me a cd with it on and i took that to the consultant at my hospital. No wonder the nhs has so many admin staff and rooms stuffed full of paper files.
 
A couple of days ago I got a letter telling me to get jabbed for Covid and 'Flu. I went to my local pharmacist, who told me that it was too early in the season to get the jabs done. Another 3 weeks.
We've both been laid up for the last couple of weeks. My partner tested +ve for Covid, me -ve. But we both had the same symptoms and I've not felt so bad for a very long time. 18 days now and not yet out of the woods completely.
 
Artiglio said:
AJB , i’ve been told that the nhs’s aversion to email is a result of fears of being sued in the event of a data breach. My sister has a well controlled auto immune problem, for which she needs regular tests, but for some reason the hospital best placed to do the tests is in a different nhs trust to her GP, they won’t email or fax results , by post they take an age, so she has the tests, goes back picks up the results and takes them to her gp.
I broke my arm in wales, they wouldn’t send anything to my gp, i had to request a copy of my information , they sent me a cd with it on and i took that to the consultant at my hospital. No wonder the nhs has so many admin staff and rooms stuffed full of paper files.
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I use the NHS app and appear to be able to see letters from our hospital trust, my records, test results etc. I get all my invitations both as a message on the app and as a text to my phone. Possibly it's not joined up if I moved to another Trust's area. We shall have to wait and see,
 
The last thing I want to see is my medical records, rather not think about them tbh. Best live in complete ignorance. Today I had flu and pneumonia jabs, I declined my second shingles jab and will get it in a couple of weeks - three in one day?! I seem to get covid jabs every few months. With regular blood checks, I'm getting to be a pin cushion. Carpe diem.
 
My wife still hasn't had an appointment for a follow up by her Parkinsons consultant. Requested at her last vist at the end of May and wanted to see her in September, when she rang, yet again a month ago she was told "ah yes you're on the list to make an appointment for". Unfortunately the NHS and efficiency are not good bedfellows.

One of my friends rang me this evening, he's 90 and has various medical issues was in Newcastle centre and nipped into Boots to ask for a Covid jab, Come back at 2pm she says and the cost will be £98.32. His response was (shortened) "What for?" "Oh I believe it's the new vaccine sir", "I can get it free from the surgery or other chemists". "Perhaps that's not the new vaccine".
Of course he just walked away muttering under his breath. I hadn't heard this before.
 
Chris152 said:
The last thing I want to see is my medical records, rather not think about them tbh. Best live in complete ignorance. Today I had flu and pneumonia jabs, I declined my second shingles jab and will get it in a couple of weeks - three in one day?! I seem to get covid jabs every few months. With regular blood checks, I'm getting to be a pin cushion. Carpe diem.
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Second shingles jab? I’m missing out here ! Nurse ?
 
RogerS said:
Second shingles jab? I’m missing out here ! Nurse ?
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I had to check just now - apparently it's 'Shingrix [which] is a non-live recombinant adjuvanted subunit shingles vaccine. It does not contain any live virus.' (I understand the last bit.) A new thing which came out last year, you have a second jab between 8 weeks and 6 months after the first.
I asked about possible issues with having all three yesterday and the nurse told me that at a few months, babies have eight different shots at the same time!
Right arm (I think that was the pneumonia one) aches a little, left arm feels fine, all good.
 
Yes it’s two jabs now for shingles. Second one made me a bit under the weather for a few days. Small price to pay as I got shingles last year and was lucky *I didn’t go blind in my good eye.
COVID jab tomorrow and flu maybe next week. I could have both tomorrow but I’m erring on the side of caution.

*not really luck but rather prompt action by Leicester infirmary eye casualty.
 
RogerS said:
I use the NHS app and appear to be able to see letters from our hospital trust, my records, test results etc. I get all my invitations both as a message on the app and as a text to my phone. Possibly it's not joined up if I moved to another Trust's area. We shall have to wait and see,
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I use the NHS app as well (there are two that are linked. I can see all correspondence and my entire medical record, and I can request prescriptions and message the surgery. The issue for me was it takes some parts of the NHS quite a while to type the letters, check them and load them. My GP says the typing facility at Maidstone is outsourced but not at Tunbridge Wells. Odd. Specialisms are dispersed in Kent so for anything complex you can find yourself visiting different facilities. Not a big deal for us as we are in the middle of them all.
 
Shingles depends on which vaccine as to whether it is 1 or 2. But thanks for the reminder as I haven't had a second one, just went to check my record to see which vaccine and can't even find the first. Hey ho..another little job
 
RogerS said:
I use the NHS app and appear to be able to see letters from our hospital trust, my records, test results etc. I get all my invitations both as a message on the app and as a text to my phone. Possibly it's not joined up if I moved to another Trust's area. We shall have to wait and see,
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But that’s not email and it doesn’t allow the your records to be shared electronically across the nhs , may be efficient for keeping patients informed as to whats happening but certainly doesn’t speed up the process within the nhs which is where the inefficiencies really matter.
There was no nhs physio for the recovery from my brocken arm and so i arranged my own privately the physio not unreasonably wanted to see the scans/ x rays of the initial injury and those during the recovery. I had the initial ones on a disc from wales which i could email, those from my local hospital i could request in the same format or take a picture with my phone from the consultants computer monitor in his office. Email was not an option in either case. Perhaps today if i had the app i could download them, i’ve no.
The paper system is daft, my GP made a skin cancer referral for me, told me to get back to them if i’d heard nothing in 4 weeks, didn’t so i went and asked, all i got was that the letter had been sent and as far as they were concerned that was it, they wouldn’t chase it up or even give me the address it had been sent to. At which point my only course of action is to ask for the surgeries complaints procedure , which is hardly a way of maintaining on good terms with them.

Fast forward 3 years another referral took 4 months , 2 community dermatology appointments and a hospital appointment to get to the stage of yes “it needs cutting out”, 16 month wait if you want it done here ( not my local hospital which apparently doesn’t do such minor things) 6 months if i’m willing to travel 50 miles to a private provider that does work for the nhs. (That’s no problem) But please don’t chase us up unless you’ve not heard anything for 4 months.
 
Artiglio said:
But that’s not email and it doesn’t allow the your records to be shared electronically across the nhs , may be efficient for keeping patients informed as to whats happening but certainly doesn’t speed up the process within the nhs which is where the inefficiencies really matter.
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When you say 'across the NHS' do you mean between Trusts because the app certainly provides sharing stuff within our Trust - hospital and GP surgery. I don't see any need at all for email withi this context.

I do accept that I don't know if the app exchanges stuff between Trusts but from an IT design perspective can't see why not
 
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