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Have you tried emailing your CCG about this? Maybe their complaints email. Technically it is NHS England responsible for GPs (as well as the vaccination programme overall), so maybe an email to their complaints team too? This does seem to be happening across the country.

Relevant for autistic people or those with a learning difficulty, discusses reasonable adjustments that should be offered: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/covid-19-vaccination-training/

Applies to England only: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/next-steps-on-the-vaccination-programme-vaccinating-cohort-6/

I would email my M.P. if I were you.

The HCPs are aessssed by their supervisor (and employer). They get disciplined if they make too many awards to claimants. If they allow more awards than 'the average', all their reports are reviewed and outcomes adjusted.

https://www.homecare.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1642966/Housebound-are-still-missing-out-on-coronavirus-vaccine-due-to-vaccination-blind-spot

https://www.hsj.co.uk/primary-care/housebound-people-being-missed-for-vaccination-nhs-warned/7029535.article

Not sure if this link has been posted here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca/information-for-healthcare-professionals-on-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca...

Vaccine dosing and spacing (video includes David Strain): This appears to be the data they are discussing: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/949505/annex-a-phe-report-to-jcvi-on-estimated-efficacy-of-single-vaccine-dose.pdf

Not sure if this written interview with David Strain has been linked here: https://www.dw.com/en/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-support-effects/a-56220741

From what my daughter told me, having the Covid vaccine at a GP hub currently can entail up to a hour of waiting around and there are a lot of people hanging around in the waiting room (obviously not everyone has a car). This is something people with ME need to consider.

If Strain is involved with the Devon CFS clinic (RD&E) it will be an interesting test case to see how quickly and in what way the service changes when the new NICE guidelines are published. They currently say they base their approach on the 2007 CFS/ME guidelines. They seem to be one of the few...

I have 4 cats (previously 2 dogs as well) so I've stuck with my Miele cylinder Cat and Dog, fitted with a HEPA filter due to my allergies (the bags also have several layers of filtering): They do make more compact models, but the vacuum is very stable when lying flat and due to the design...

Useful ruling regarding reading and budgeting: https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/4338-pip-reading-and-budgeting-points-for-claimants-with-apparently-good-literacy-and-numeracy

They are trying to clock up the world beating record of poor and abysmal quality studies conducted involving a named researcher... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clock%20up

A useful chart to compare out of work benefits with a nation's average income you can change some of the settings at the top, for example to indicate your previous earnings): https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=NRR In the UK this has been reducing year on year.

I don't think it will strengthen her position in the longer term, because she is effectively starting to gaslight a whole new group of patients (those with long Covid) many of whom are smart professionals and are able to see right through her behaviour. Her false claim that she was speaking...

I think these individuals are still stuck in the past, when patients didn't have access to information and understand professional standards. For example, how naive of CG to think that her BBC appearance wouldn't be available as an on demand recording, from which a transcript of what she...

It is right to correct inappropriate behaviour and comments from anyone on social media, regardless of their health or mental difficulties. But how this is done is key. For example, any teacher would know it is essential to model appropriate behaviour to problem students... These professionals...

While I agree it is much better when patients behave rationally, politely, take the high moral ground etc., many patients have been harmed by medical professionals (this is particularly true of psychiatry) plus simply don't have the mental capacity and/or emotional education to be able to do...