I think maybe provision is a bit patchy. I don't think my parents have been offered either the PPV or the shingles vaccine, and they're both over 80 now. Maybe if you passed the relevant age before it was available, you don't get offered it at all? That's certainly true for the childhood/teenage vaccines, eg I assume that the HPV vaccine doesn't work in adults, or maybe they assume any damage is already done so it's too late. Or maybe it's just about targeting the available resources where the benefit will be greatest.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
JennyJ, 85% of sexually active folk will have HPV infection (although only a small percentage will actually then go on to acquire cervical cancer. ) Ideally vaccination at 12/13. I had the pneumovax at 65, boy WHAT a reaction!! Was offered the shingles Vax, just as I had my first Covid jab. Unless you have grown up in a convent, never kissed anyone,or shared a toothbrush,you are very likely carrying the Herpes virus as well.
JennyJ, 85% of sexually active folk will have HPV infection (although only a small percentage will actually then go on to acquire cervical cancer. ) Ideally vaccination at 12/13. I had the pneumovax at 65, boy WHAT a reaction!! Was offered the shingles Vax, just as I had my first Covid jab. Unless you have grown up in a convent, never kissed anyone,or shared a toothbrush,you are very likely carrying the Herpes virus as well.
You certainly know how to cheer a person up @Nanny Beach
I leapt at the chance to got the shingles jab as I caught chicken pox from my daughter when she was a child and was the most ill I have been in my adult life prior to Covid.
I will ask for the pneumonia one next time I am at the surgery. We are so lucky to be able to protect ourselves and others from unpleasant and dangerous diseases.
Crumbs we have gone round in circles over time on here!
Although I’m not totally sure whether the covid vaccines can be up to date with the virus, and I’m also not sure if children really need a vaccine (if they don’t tend to be critically unwell) - I take the vaccines and encourage others to do so too. It’s not just for ME, it’s for my community and wider society.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/when-is-pneumococcal-vaccine-needed/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/who-can-have-the-shingles-vaccine/
That would explain why your OH wasn't offered the shingles vaccine, but it sounds like s/he should be offered the pneumonia one.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border