Progress of vaccinations

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gegsongegsonlegs said:
Good to hear mate, my FIL is 84 , heart condition so would have thought he’d be up there but not heard yet.. would put mrs g’s mind at rest a little bit.. can’t keep the old boy in. Just nipped to Morrison’s, Lidl, or whatever shop he fancies. Mrs is sick of telling him..
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My gran is 93. She lives by herself but has quite a few medications for things wrong with her.
Id have thought she'd be one of the first to get it.
She has a bit of dementia though, we keep telling her to write down every phone call and hope that she hasn't forgotten a call from the doctors.
 


Brian Griffin said:
What do you want him to do like? Get his HGV license and help out?

This is a nightmare and get to get 140,000+ vaccines done in a week with our most vulnerable is a great effort.

As soon as the Oxford vaccine is cleared you'll see ~500,000 done a week.

The government have got lots wrong - but getting this started at the pace they have isn't one of them.
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This, can't really fault the government on the vaccine procurement & rollout. I get that people are desperate for all this to end and frustrated it isn't going faster, but it will pick up pace. Look at how we have expanded our testing capacity in the space of 9 months.
 
pavarotti1980 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: Nadhim Zahawi appointed as vaccine rollout minister

Nadhim Zahawi will oversee distributing the vaccine in England until at least summer 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk

Zahawi appointed Minister for Health/Business tasked with vaccine rollout

To be honest you want as little political interference as possible and let the NHS, military just get on with it
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Thats what I was alluding to, give it to medical people , for example worked in third world countries, used to working in problematic conditions, eg transport systems rather than give the job to one of your marras who has no previous in the field required.
this is too important for nepotism, people are dying/dead , the economy is crashing/crashed.
 
offmenut said:
My gran is 93. She lives by herself but has quite a few medications for things wrong with her.
Id have thought she'd be one of the first to get it.
She has a bit of dementia though, we keep telling her to write down every phone call and hope that she hasn't forgotten a call from the doctors.
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Really good point that and not one I or many others probably thought about.
 
herra soul mob said:
Thats what I was alluding to, give it to medical people , for example worked in third world countries, used to working in problematic conditions, eg transport systems rather than give the job to one of your marras who has no previous in the field required.
this is too important for nepotism, people are dying/dead , the economy is crashing/crashed.
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I dont think he will be directly involved but will be the link between the various bodies involved and government. So far in the north east this is being driven/controlled by NHS
 
Buzzer said:
This, can't really fault the government on the vaccine procurement & rollout. I get that people are desperate for all this to end and frustrated it isn't going faster, but it will pick up pace. Look at how we have expanded our testing capacity in the space of 9 months.
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The testing contract is not a good example - a lot of spoecialists in the feilds of project management commercials logistics, health and resources were pulled together from different departments to look at the testing bids evaluating cost, expertise, logistics and resourcing plans. They were told to keep a week free and hotels were booked to do this in London. The night before the Govenment cancelled this as they had awarded the contract already - turns out to be a mate of the Governement. Everyone went back to their day jobs only for the new supplier to realise he couldn't deliver and then support from the army, Dept Health and other departs had to be dragged in as things were so far behind. I hope the Govt learned a lesson but I doubt it.
 
offmenut said:
My gran is 93. She lives by herself but has quite a few medications for things wrong with her.
Id have thought she'd be one of the first to get it.
She has a bit of dementia though, we keep telling her to write down every phone call and hope that she hasn't forgotten a call from the doctors.
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surely the doctors would contact a family member knowing that she has dementia? That’s what we do when making appointments with our customers
 
offmenut said:
My gran is 93. She lives by herself but has quite a few medications for things wrong with her.
Id have thought she'd be one of the first to get it.
She has a bit of dementia though, we keep telling her to write down every phone call and hope that she hasn't forgotten a call from the doctors.
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Hopefully she will be contacted soon mate, that’s going to be a fairly common problem for the elderly who live alone. FIL is starting to get a bit forgetful so mrs g is constantly on to him about keeping the phone handy ( he’s a bit deaf) and writing stuff down.
she rang his GP yesterday and they said this side of the river will be done at the bunny hill ctr and they would contact by phone.. hope they catch the old bugger in or the phone isn’t left in the kitchen or owt..
 
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