Top quark wrote: » Just checked Grandeeod. Same for me . 16 hours and 1 minute . Must be automated .
km79 wrote: » I would contact my Gp, explain the situation and ask to be put on their standby list You have been patient enough at this stage
Rebelbrowser wrote: » Well I'm an idiot for thinking the HSE were actually about to help. I phoned twice in the last few days and was told to phone again today as my 21 day registration period would be up by then and they could "manually intervene" in my case when I called. I believe that was the phrase both (very helpful) phone agents used. I took that to mean they'd look at the various lists in Cork today (there are MRNA first doses being given out in both City Hall and PUC all this week it seems) and slot me in to one of them. God forbid. No, instead I've now been passed to the "escalation team". Be still my beating heart. So when will I hear from them? 5 to 7 days. And will they phone with an urgent appointment? Oh no sir, they will text you with an appointment for at least 3 days after. Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! So in other words, I'm still waiting for a bloody text, just like I've been for 21 days and the only thing that has changed is that it sounds like I'm officially now unlikely to hear any more for a few days. Is it too early in the day to have a stiff drink?
Toodles_27 wrote: » Anyone getting the impression it’s all beginning to unravel? I’ll be first to admit, I had serious doubts about the capability of the HSE to roll out the vaccination programme but was happy to be proven wrong and they were motoring along nicely. However in last couple of weeks - long delays, people from Waterford being sent to Kerry, people from Louth, Dublin, Galway, Limerick getting apps in Waterford, and now cancelled appointments…..doesn’t instill confidence at the minute, does it?
salmocab wrote: » Ah it’s a few glitches, 3 million jabs in arms there’s always going to be a few logistical mistakes. Some people are over the moon to have something to give out about. Even had claims of favouritism for south side Dubs over North side ones. It’s all just noise.
appledrop wrote: » That's actually good advice you might get lucky with cancellation with GP. Meanwhile I'd absolutely hound them in call centre. I'm sure if you on everyday they will find you a slot!
Grandeeod wrote: » Well it's not nice being a logistical mistake especially when I know lots a few years younger than me that have received the first jab in a local centre. I didn't mind travelling to UCD, but this does feel very disheartening.
salmocab wrote: » No it’s not but the poster was suggesting that the whole thing is falling apart which it isn’t. The system was only built and handling hundreds of thousands of registrations its doing quite well but of course there are glitches and anomalies.
Lumen wrote: » The problem is mostly one of unrealistic expectations being set, which comes from an original plan that was completely out of step with the ability of our fragmented health services to deliver. The HSE had at least six months to prepare a simple system of data collection or GP referral that could have supported a more precise rollout in the MVCs and from what I can tell they did nothing. In the absence of that they could have just gone with age groups, and there would have been some moaning but not massive disappointment.
Toodles_27 wrote: » I never said it was falling apart. I said it seemed to be unravelling. Of course there are going to be glitches - they are dealing with huge numbers of people and now have the added complication of administering second doses. They’ve done really well, as I’ve stated. But when you get people from all over the country being sent to Waterford for 1st vacc and being told (by HSE) that if they cancel and try to reschedule, their rescheduled appt will still likely be for Waterford….that’s not a mistake.
salmocab wrote: » I would say that’s definitely a mistake
Toodles_27 wrote: » Have a look at the HSELive Twitter feed
iamwhoiam wrote: » Go to the security and explain your problem . There are chairs up front for anyone who cannot queue for health reasons
The Raging Bile Duct wrote: » Are they not operating off age groups now?
Happydays2020 wrote: » No they are not. This is a massive mess.
FuzzyThinking wrote: » 21 days does seem too long. The risk there is if you’re not catching issues quickly they’ll become long or you’ll get people just not bothering to follow up. I’m aware of one case of a person who’s just shy of 70 and somehow couldn’t register online and is now just gone into “ah sure I’ll leave it” mode and seems hard to convince to get vaccinated at all. From what I gather he either put in an invalid PPSN or didn’t see the sms (more likely).
The Raging Bile Duct wrote: » Sounds like someone that had no interest in getting the vaccine to start with. There's two people in my workplace who are in their forties who haven't applied and say they're still thinking about it. I know neither of them have any intention of getting it.
FuzzyThinking wrote: » They might yet though. You get that in every type of human engagement with stuff like this. Enthusiastic early sign ups, the main stream and then the abundantly cautious and … finally the laggards who eventually go with it, but only after everyone else has. I’m assuming single shot J&J might be used to “sweep up” over the next few months via the pharmacy route with very little admin involved.
