Had mine done at local pharmacy, no queue I listened to the first pop master in the car and was out to hear the second one. I think the coloured labels may be for the different jabs, old or vulnerable get a different one to younger people. @Joyce Goldenlily. Do you live In St A or would you have needed to travel.
I live on the far Western edge of the St. Austell area so would need to travel around 8/10 miles to get to the Eden Project. Not far by todays standards I know but not easy without a car. It is the fact that I live within a 5 mins. drive from my local health centre which is open but only for collecting prescriptions. If the chemist where I had my jab done can organise themselves to provide a vaccination service, why cann't my health centre. I did have to wait in a queue of 6 people in front of me and several more behind me, outside the chemist, I pity everyone who went yesterday, they must have been soaked, it poured nearly all day down here. My imagination is working overtime as to how a "drive thru" vaccination system works. Blow guns at 20 paces, through open car windows perhaps?
My sister had a sudden text from her surgery saying they had opened a drive-thru flu jab service and there was a slot in half an hour, so they jumped in the car. When they got there, one person checked them on their list, asked some questions and second person (a GP/nurse?) jabbed them thro the open car window. In and out in under ten minutes - marvellous!
Opened the mail, shook out contents and managed to get a bleeding papercut in al senses of the phrase - put the envelopes in recycling - and cleaned hands with 70% alcohol as you do. Noooooo. The cut stung when I made it and stung twice as much when I added alcohol. I think I may try some salt or iodine next just for the halibut.
Drive thru... stick your arm out of the window, You can hardly turn round in our car park, very small, couldn’t drive thru as most smaller areas are.
Is there even a town bus to Eden? It’s all a bit silly.
My daughter lives nearish to the big Tesco at Holmbush.
Your daughter lives about half an hours drive to the other side of St Austell from me.
I think there could be a couple buses from St Austell to Eden. However, by the time I had caught one of our 2 buses per hour into the town centre, waited for a connecting bus to Eden, waited for my jab, waited for a bus back to town and then waited for a bus home I would have spent all day bus hopping. The car parks at Eden are like the ones in America, acres of them. Thank goodness I got my jab done in a local village.
My sister had a sudden text from her surgery saying they had opened a drive-thru flu jab service and there was a slot in half an hour, so they jumped in the car. When they got there, one person checked them on their list, asked some questions and second person (a GP/nurse?) jabbed them thro the open car window. In and out in under ten minutes - marvellous!
I left a big note on the door for the postman asking him not to knock the door as I had a meeting and left instructions where to leave the parcel. He knocked the door and said 'I saw your note but thought I'd knock anyway'. Luckily the meeting had finished by then so I suppose he was technically correct.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My sister had a sudden text from her surgery saying they had opened a drive-thru flu jab service and there was a slot in half an hour, so they jumped in the car. When they got there, one person checked them on their list, asked some questions and second person (a GP/nurse?) jabbed them thro the open car window. In and out in under ten minutes - marvellous!
Brilliant. So it can be done. Why not everywhere?
No idea. Our GP centre has been doing phone triage and visits if necessary throughout. 5 minutes on the bike to get there.
Had my flu jab last Saturday lunchtime - went in at the front past a security guard who controlled the queue and offered hand-gel and enforced safety. Then inside with a face covering on where there were 4 vaccination lanes. Then out the back via a one way system.
Whole thing took about 45 seconds, and they seemed to have a capacity of a couple of hundred per hour.
Really very very good.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
Why can't all surgeries do it? Because not every surgery is the same - different population and age ranges, different density of population, different areas etc etc. London, or any big town/city, is very different from a tiny rural surgery in the middle of nowhere, or on an island
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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It is the fact that I live within a 5 mins. drive from my local health centre which is open but only for collecting prescriptions. If the chemist where I had my jab done can organise themselves to provide a vaccination service, why cann't my health centre. I did have to wait in a queue of 6 people in front of me and several more behind me, outside the chemist, I pity everyone who went yesterday, they must have been soaked, it poured nearly all day down here.
My imagination is working overtime as to how a "drive thru" vaccination system works.
Blow guns at 20 paces, through open car windows perhaps?
Is there even a town bus to Eden? It’s all a bit silly.
My daughter lives nearish to the big Tesco at Holmbush.
I think there could be a couple buses from St Austell to Eden.
However, by the time I had caught one of our 2 buses per hour into the town centre, waited for a connecting bus to Eden, waited for my jab, waited for a bus back to town and then waited for a bus home I would have spent all day bus hopping.
The car parks at Eden are like the ones in America, acres of them.
Thank goodness I got my jab done in a local village.
Had my flu jab last Saturday lunchtime - went in at the front past a security guard who controlled the queue and offered hand-gel and enforced safety. Then inside with a face covering on where there were 4 vaccination lanes. Then out the back via a one way system.
Whole thing took about 45 seconds, and they seemed to have a capacity of a couple of hundred per hour.
Really very very good.
Because not every surgery is the same - different population and age ranges, different density of population, different areas etc etc.
London, or any big town/city, is very different from a tiny rural surgery in the middle of nowhere, or on an island
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...