In the future there may be an easier choice for those with needle phobia.
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I’d uptick that a dozen times if I could 
Not bad.
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Yep, I can confirm what @Rat_au_van said above. I was denied parental permission for my BCG jab at 15, and despite going to the nurse and saying I wanted it, there was nothing that could be done.
Ending up getting all my vaccinations in the first few months of University.
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I’m a GP trainee so know plenty about consent and mental capacity. Also a little about the vaccine programme.
Any questions, fire away.
My feeling (from working in a vaccination centre) is that many of those that are remaining need to have a clinical discussion in order to answer their queries and get reassurance.
Are GP’s ringing those not vaccinated or providing a telephone line where questions can be answered. I know there is plenty of information online but I think some would prefer to hear it direct from a clinician.
I know in our area GP’s were ringing the elderly who hadn’t attended but I’ve not heard of anything got the younger age groups?
Maybe we need a pop up Q&A session rather than vaccination?
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GPs are already overwhelmed, there’s no way they’d have time for that
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Yes, but:
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I’ve probably had a dozen messages from them, despite being booked in.
It’s a tiny annoyance, not one worth ranting at anyone about.
No matter what peoples views, no need for abuse.
Not to that degree (thankfully) but we had some abuse from passengers because of the mask mandate on public transport.
No matter how we approached it, someone would not be happy.
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Yes and no.
In the 2 practices I’ve worked in the past 12 months we text and remind people that there are vaccine clinics available. GP practices are working harder than ever at the moment so having a dedicated line would create too much additional work pressure.
Questions about interactions with meds and whether their specific cluster of conditions mean they can or can’t get the vaccine is above what the average GP can answer.
In those cases we signpost patients to the vaccine centre or their consultant to answer questions.
General advice I’d happily give a patient.
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As good a place to post this, as anywhere else. Picked up my GCSE English results today, after a year of remote learning due to Covid.
Got an 8 which for all of us dinosaurs is an A.
As ours was an adult education one, run by the local council we didn’t miss any lessons, as it was all in the evenings.
Our mock tests were done under exam conditions. Two sets taken at home under observation via webcam and one set in the actual classroom.
Glad it’s all over and done with 
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Congratulations!
If I recall my gcse results day this means you have to get your fake ID out and hit the pubs tonight
You still need to use fake ID otherwise you’re not doing it right
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Ha ha the club’s gonna be full of underage kids trying to get into them tonight
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What’s peoples thoughts on this? This is a bbc news top story.
I never knew you could diagnose the type of virus / illness based on the sound of a cough 
I’m not sure how testing could get any easier than it already is in the UK! Although I guess our current testing infrastructure won’t be around forever and the more tools we have the better.
I have no idea about the source of this story, and I’m dubious that there’s a test with no false positives, no false negatives, and no indeterminate results. It sounds too good to be true.
But, more generally, this is the kind of area that artificial intelligence is working on… Record thousands of coughs, then play them to a computer and tell it which patients had disease X, and let the computer analyse the tone, frequency, duration, volume, etc, etc, etc so that it can try to pick out patterns.
Yeah also - why are they asking people to record their coughs to train the software if it already does that 
. I’m thinking the 100% accuracy thing refers to a very specific scenario of some sort
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Like only using people who have recently tested positive? 
I mean AI can do some very powerful things, but diagnosing a specific viral infection based on a voice recording from a cough, seems a bit far fetched.
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