Covid 19 Part XXXII-215,743 ROI (4,137 deaths)111,166 NI (2,036 deaths)(22/02)Read OP

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Good point. Many people will be going in to their GP for their jab and saying "By the way, Doctor....".

They'll structure this in a way that the chit-chat is kept to a minimum. Each patient will likely get screened by a nurse (Questions, HR, BP, etc). Then into the GP, jab, done, out again into the waiting area.

The craic of taking an hour for a chat to discuss their son's new child and the weird thing on their foot will mess up scheduling and won't be permitted.

jams100 wrote:

I would've agreed with you last year but these days I'm not so sure. Come the summer we'll be told we'll be rewarded by getting to go to another county and then we'll be blamed for something some next winter again. That cycle will just continue.

As soon as we get down to double digits there'll be inter county travel again.
Lol I remember the amount of people attacking me on here when I suggested we were opening up two weeks too early at Christmas. Lessons hopefully have been learned now and we stay shut until this thing gets down to mid double digits. I personally believe we'll get there just before Easter.

At that stage we hopefully have started vaccinating those with underlying conditions. We will continue to social distance, wear masks and wash our hands but we should be able to visit other households.

jams100 wrote:

Either way come two to three years time we'll be back to 700 people on trolleys. Sorry for being so negative this morning but i really don't see any long term change coming from this other than the working from home thing

This is an entirely separate issue. I wish I had it in me to go out and find like-minded people who would be interested in sorting this country out and form a new political party with the aim of asking the electorate to give us one term to fix the health service, our welfare system and the many other areas that need to fixed. I'm talking about putting together a group of non-politicians, experts like doctors, nurses, accountants, economists etc.
It's been made clear during this pandemic that the three largest parties are not capable of running a country.

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Given the seemingly large amount of people that don't realise they have high blood pressure, tacking on an auto blood pressure check would take a few extra seconds and perhaps provide a country wide benefit to many people who, otherwise, would not have attended a GP and not known of potential issues.

Just an idea. I'm sure there are other quick health checks that the GP could do included in the cost to get some societal benefit out of it.

Some people (my father was one of them) get increased blood pressure when in a medical setting, so a health check during vaccination visits might not give totally accurate results.

seamus wrote: »

They'll structure this in a way that the chit-chat is kept to a minimum. Each patient will likely get screened by a nurse (Questions, HR, BP, etc). Then into the GP, jab, done, out again into the waiting area.

The craic of taking an hour for a chat to discuss their son's new child and the weird thing on their foot will mess up scheduling and won't be permitted.

It is GP practice driven, but does that mean GPs have to give the jab?

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Yes. White coat. But still will show up serious issues.

Just checked the NHS when going for the vaccine no mention of blood pressure check you will be asked if you are allergic to anything if not you get the injection, if the were going to start medical checks they would never get it done relation in the North got it asked questions on allergy then the injection

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eagle eye wrote: »

Good to see a low death count, hopefully it remains like that.

Death figures on weekends are rarely accurate.

podgeandrodge wrote:

How's your brother getting on with the Ivermectin. Seems they haven't ruled it out just yet. Heat well turn out to be right, but a tad premature.

The Ivermectin treatment is currently in a clinical trial in Oxford.

Last 5 Sunday's

January 10th - 4842
January 17th - 3231
January 24th - 1910
January 31st - 1414
February 7th - 1024

Happydays2020 wrote: »

I disagree. That is for two shots and all the admin.

£12GBP or €13.80 over the border...perhaps they have less admin.

That could be it. Still a hell of a difference. Do we not have nurses and admin employed by the HSE?

Double the price is better than 4 times the price i guess

So 60 euros per person here, about 100-200 million then. That's what happens when you have a shambolic health service that relies on private sector, for profit contractors for essential functions. It's also what happens when you leave it late to plan a mass vaccination rollout.

100-200 million would have paid for a lot of mass vaccination centres, mobile units etc. and the staffing of same.

Could be worse though, if the GPs had demanded 120 euro per person they'd likely have gotten it, they have the state over a barrel as they are the ones with the precious data on patients.

As an aside, GPs are obviously not the cause of our dysfunctional health service but they are a contributory factor. Not available at weekends or outside of normal office hours, contributing to the yearly trolley crisis by referring people to A&E rather than deal with them and so that the GPs ass is covered.