Are you anxiously waiting for your vaccination? I am and I have some useful information about how to find out where you are in the rollout and how you can or cannot get a vaccination. In my case I have had the first vaccination of AstraZeneca (AZ) eight weeks ago and was hoping to find out when I might get the second.
I started my hunt after I read that pharmacies who were dispensing vaccinations were forced to throw some vaccinations away because of a number of no-show persons. As the vaccines come in a single bottle that holds five or seven vaccinations once the bottle has been opened the pharmacist needs to use all its contents within a set period of time. I searched on the HSE site for the list of pharmacists who are dispensing the vaccines – click here for list. You can search by county
I decided to ring a few in Wexford and volunteer that I could be with them in twenty minutes whenever they called. I found that some of the smaller chemists on the list have not been given a supply of the vaccines to dispense. The larger ones like Boots had the Janssen vaccine but were not allowed to register me for it. Try your GP I was told so I did. No, we have stopped vaccinating some weeks ago. If you got your first at a vaccination centre then you must ring the HSE, here is the number 1850 24 1850.
Before I rang the HSE I loggined into my HSE account that I’d created when I registered for my first jab
and found that my status had changed for the better. I’d moved on from the Awaiting Appointment Two to Appointment Two Scheduled.
I then rang the HSE helpline 1850 24 1850 and got through to a nice customer service person who was able to give me my second vaccination day, date and location. I put her own to my wife and after a few security/ permission questions she was told hers. We are at the same vaccination centre next Thursday morning and its not ninty kilometres away either.
The moral of this story is to check your HSE account first and see if you have been moved on to the Vaccination Scheduled stage. If so you will be notified by text about two days before the appointment. If you can’t wait and want to know sooner please ring the HSE on 1850 24 1850 and they should be able to tell you.
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