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She also pointed out that there's not much point calling your GP anyway because everything is being run centrally in the primary care network not GP's surgeries...
That wasn't my parents experience. My father (79) called their GP about something else to do with my mother (80) in December. While he was on the call they offered my mum a vaccine appointment. When they got to the vaccination centre my father was offered an appointment 'to save an extra trup'.
(My mum has Alzheimer's and does very little on her own / for herself)
So it seems there is a lot of local variation.
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There's been some pretty questionable advice in this thread about what to do if you have elderly relatives who haven't had their first vaccination yet. People don't seem to get that the over 80s are still being worked through and that means there are people in their 80s or 90s who are legitimately still waiting for their first jab and they haven't been forgotten.
Today on R4 had a piece on this earlier (7.51am, if you want to listen).
They had Dame Clare Gerada on who is a London-based GP and previous chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
She said some areas are ahead of others - her part of SE London has done just over half of their over 80s - and "Please wait, you won't have been forgotten, it's highly unlikely you're not on the GP list and you will be called probably sooner than you think."
When they asked her what they should do the first thing she said was "If you ring your GP they're inundated at the moment, please don't call your GP".
And that applies even now and even if your relative is in their 90s, nevermind 80s.
She also pointed out that there's not much point calling your GP anyway because everything is being run centrally in the primary care network not GP's surgeries...
Tl;dr - DON'T call your GP/anyone at this point, DO be patient.