The time requirement for a booster, in the UK, has dropped down to 5 months (for booking at least).
I was not due for consideration (i.e. allowed to book) until the 25th of November but have just been 'approved' and booked an appointment for the 16th of November.
The 'good' bit is the place is under 30m from where I would get off the bus in the bus station.
Of course their list of access adaptations/requirements is useless for me, with no reference to my being unable to stand for long, so I had to select no access limitations, as none of theirs were applicable and it wouldn't let me proceed unless I selected 'none'.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...ter-dose-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine/
(My sisters been bugging me to get one done ASAP, as regulations, and her health, allowing she is planning on driving down to pick me up to stay up there, in an airbnb, over Christmas - and then driving me back here afterwards).
Glad you've been able to book a booster, Wonko. I was reading this morning there are concerns that take up has been lower than expected:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59191506
We weren't able to book boosters until Wednesday, last week. The earliest appointments available at the venue our GP practice and sister practices are using (which is only a 15 minute drive away) were from 24 November, so we've booked for that day.
We also had to tick "none" for access requirements as otherwise the NHS booking site screens out our venue and we would have been offered venues much further away. But in fact, the venue has ramps at the front access and steps at the exit, and last time we were there, the nursing staff and marshals notice I use a cane, and asked me if I could manage the steps for the exit, and said they would open a fire door exit for me to avoid doing steps, although I can do steps. Also along the queuing corridors (and it's never a long queue, anyway) and in the reception area there are chairs placed every couple of metres if you need to perch while you are queuing. There were loos on the way in, too. This venue is usually a ferry terminal passenger lounge, so I didn't notice, but I would think there is a disabled access loo, as well.
So I don't understand why it wasn't listed as being accessible. You are permitted to drop someone off at the entrance before you park the car which we did for me, because my arthritic hip means I can't walk any distance now without pain, and I think there were a few wheelchairs parked outside the entrance you could borrow. But there may have been other accessibility requirements in the list which I've overlooked which this venue does not have.
Yesterday after lunch, we had flu jabs at the same venue but a drive through system using lorry parking areas and the covered area normally used for border control - so no getting out of the car required, as the GP jabbed us through the car windows. Never bothered with flu jabs before but thought we ought to have them this year, especially given my husband's history of stroke and TIAs, and given that all three of us caught the "cold from hell" in September which lasted 2.5 weeks for us, and for my ME son, 3 weeks, and was the worst cold any of us has ever experienced. My husband, who is 6 years older than me, feels fine, today. But I had a really achy arm last night in the muscle where I was jabbed. Got up feeling fine and arm much less sore, but by 10.30am I was cold and shivery with that "coming down with flu and just want to crawl back into bed" feeling and I am excused a shopping collection this afternoon. Paracetamol has helped and I hope by tomorrow it will have passed. (Don't have ME, myself.)
One of the volunteers assisting with admin was the lovely lady who used to live next door to us - so it was nice to see her.
