1 the supermarket i go to has a chemist built in very handy, they do flu jabs and free for unpaid carers.
But you have to book it, when are you available next week? i am an unpaid carer no such thing as when am i available, doesn’t work like that.
3 staff just standing there chatting, can i have a flu jab now only takes 30 seconds, no we don’t do that, gave up in the end.
2 I took my caree down to the GP’s for a flu jab NO we don’t come out, what if you are housebound and can’t go out?
Caree had the flu jab, i asked could i have a flu jab NO I could get sacked if i give you a flu jab said the nurse.
I have long term health problems, what if i get ill, I cannot care, what is the price of a flu jab, 50p, a couple of quid.
3 My caree was ill, the GP came out and gave my caree the flu jab, the sensible GP had chucked a load of flu jabs in her bag for the oldies as she called them.
4 Another caree is allergic to eggs, the flu jab is cultured in eggs so my caree cannot have a flu jab, they do special egg free flu jabs but there was no demand so the GP sent them all back very helpful.
Finally the finale, I took a neighbour down for a flu jab Saturday morning, complete and total chaos, the car park jammed packed full.
Dozens of people queueing up, about 2 hundred? , I sat in the car waiting an hour and a half for a 30 sec flu jab.
I don’t know what happened, had they told everyone to turn up at 10am? I don’t know, total chaos.
So i have only had one flu jab, i do get a letter entitling me to a flu jab but it is just too difficult to get one, you can’t just get one while you wait, it doesn’t work like that.
If the G.P. could do caree and unpaid carer together that would be easier, both need the flu jab, if the unpaid carer got flu would not be able to care needing substitute care, hundreds of pounds.
I think the district nurses used to do the flu jabs, i live on an estate a lot of elderly/disabled, all very close together.
Very easy for the district nurses to go house to house.
But was told it was cancelled, district nurses not allowed, its all money and politics and red tape.
So yes will try and get a flu jab this year but not easy.