Flu jabs in pharmacies - who does them?

[AleisterCrowley]

Well, after walking to local medical centre I got an appointment for 4 Dec (earliest slot)
Quick fiddle online and Boots seem to have new stock so got a slot tomorrow
'the pharmacist will check some details before administering the vaccination' so hopefully not getting one of the cleaners with a SNIPS* certificate based on 30 minutes of online training..

*Sticking Needles In People Safely

[bungeejumper]

'the pharmacist will check some details before administering the vaccination' so hopefully not getting one of the cleaners with a SNIPS* certificate based on 30 minutes of online training.

Checking your particulars, eh? Trousers down, then.

Stoopid question, though - have you phoned in to cancel your 4th December shot? Because the pharmacist might need to interrogate your NHS record to make sure you haven't had it already. T'would be embarrassing if it looked like you were trying to line up two shots. There are those.

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

I haven't , but I will do directly after my Boots shot - cancelling before seems like tempting fate
(Receptionist at local health centre suggested I try pharmacies and asked me to cancel if I got lucky)

[ReformedCharacter]

Last time I was in hospital I needed a lumbar puncture and beforehand a slightly nervous medic approached me - presumably a student - and asked if he could do it, he added,'I have done one before'. I was tempted to ask if it had been on a living person but decided I really didn't want to know the answer. I agreed and was pleased that he was well supervised. I can still walk and have no back-pain so I suppose he must have done OK. As for flu and Covid jabs, since the syringes appear to be pre-filled it must be a task that just about anyone who knows which is the sharp end and where the target is could do.

RC

[AleisterCrowley]

Well, for my Covid booster last Friday the person injecting me filled the syringe from a vial and got the person supervising (at the computer) to confirm it was the correct dose

[UncleEbenezer]

just remember, everyone has to "have their first go"
just don't think about that the next time you are on an aeroplane
or worse still, on a hospital operating table

Had lunch at a tiny Thai place today. Very pleasant curry, but the proprietress was rushing about and apologising: evidently not quite at ease.

When I came to pay, she mentioned she'd just opened yesterday.

[ReformedCharacter]

Well, for my Covid booster last Friday the person injecting me filled the syringe from a vial and got the person supervising (at the computer) to confirm it was the correct dose

It seems to be standard practise and probably a requirement that the administration and preparation of medications is witnessed. I've only attended mass-vaccinations and probably there are staff somewhere in the background filling the syringes in readiness and another person checking. I've produced medication administration software and the requirement is always that everything should be witnessed. Decades ago I worked in the care sector and it was part of the job to inject insulin into a diabetic. No training beforehand apart from a 'see one and do one', although we did later get a diabetic specialist nurse to 'train' us. We were invited to jab ourselves with a needle to see what it feels like. I think I was the only one who tried it.

RC

[AF62]

Well, for my Covid booster last Friday the person injecting me filled the syringe from a vial and got the person supervising (at the computer) to confirm it was the correct dose

It seems to be standard practise and probably a requirement that the administration and preparation of medications is witnessed.

RC

Not for my flu jab at the pharmacy back in October. The pharmacist did the injection themselves, simply getting the vaccine out, checking a few details, and then sticking it my arm.

As for bad injections, the worst I had was some years ago when I broke a little toe - don't ask how, but it was sticking out at right angles! At A&E after the X-Ray confirmed it was broken and they needed to give an anaesthetic injection to reset it, the comment from the doctor was "this will hurt" and they were right.

[swill453]

It seems to be standard practise and probably a requirement that the administration and preparation of medications is witnessed. I've only attended mass-vaccinations and probably there are staff somewhere in the background filling the syringes in readiness and another person checking.

Again, not for my Covid ones. The same person filled the syringe from the vial and injected me, nobody else involved.

Scott.

[AleisterCrowley]

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As for bad injections, the worst I had was some years ago when I broke a little toe - don't ask how, but it was sticking out at right angles! At A&E after the X-Ray confirmed it was broken and they needed to give an anaesthetic injection to reset it, the comment from the doctor was "this will hurt" and they were right.

I had a sedative injection direct into the thigh muscle once
Once was enough...

[AleisterCrowley]

'the pharmacist will check some details before administering the vaccination' so hopefully not getting one of the cleaners with a SNIPS* certificate based on 30 minutes of online training.

Checking your particulars, eh? Trousers down, then.

Stoopid question, though - have you phoned in to cancel your 4th December shot? Because the pharmacist might need to interrogate your NHS record to make sure you haven't had it already. T'would be embarrassing if it looked like you were trying to line up two shots. There are those.

BJ

had the Boot's jab today - all very well organised with proper medics!
And yes, I have just cancelled the existing appt. at local medical centre

[csearle]

I'm trying to get a 'flu jab but my local health centre doesn't have any until early December and I've had no luck getting through on the phone to book anyway. I'm looking at booking in one of the local pharmacies but...
Who actually does the injection ? Do trained staff turn up and run the sessions or do some of the pharmacy staff get an 'injecting people' certificate?
I've had problems getting some of them to follow basic maths, so I don't want to end up full of air bubbles or hepatitis because they got a bit confused.
My three Covid jabs were obviously administered by medical professionals, despite the makeshift environment (at least one was a real doctor!)

Three! You young thing!?!?!?!? Clearly you have cheated the system. C.

[AleisterCrowley]

I actually got #3 a day early. And I don't care.