[7 October] I’ve just had to abandon a Covid/flu vaccination appointment at the Tesco car park after waiting an hour, since I’d have to wait another hour before being done. This is despite having an appointment. The core reason for the fiasco is that the NHS grossly underestimated the walk-in demand in the morning, so that people who had waited hours were ahead of the people with timed appointments (there was also a medical emergency which apparently slowed things a little).
All a striking contrast with the orderly vaccination process in Seaton hospital during the pandemic. The NHS obviously just doesn’t understand that 45 per cent of Seaton’s population are over 65 and therefore eligible. They’re trying to do vaccination on the cheap and they are not taking into account that people are rightly still very concerned about catching Covid.
East Devon Watch 
The question is, would a Conservative government have done it any better.
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Apparently it was a similar situation at the Tesco car park in Axminster, excessively long queues with elderly people collapsing under the strain of extended standing times.
Many of these people are the ones that are no longer able to drive so cannot get to the places such a Greendale so have to rely on what the NHS is offering in Seaton ( or Axminster). Whatever the weather.
This is inhumane and an uncivilised way to treat people – especially the elderly. Why not the Seaton Hospital or a local spacious hall? Surely we can do better than this.
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Probably not!!
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