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NHS vaccinations made affordable.

CliveS

We hear a lot about NHS being overworked and stretched to the limit because all injections are performed by doctors or nurses BUT WHY???

What we need is a micro finger pricking lancelet with a hole down the middle with the vaccine in a small squeezable rubberoid top that can be inject by the patient themselves.

All the time wasted by NHS can be saved and also the volumes of instructions for use, H&S warnings, and legal getout clauses in all different languages can be put into the QR code likes this church funding one. See attached.  This can be posted to millions with no waste paper, injection paraphernalia, syringes etc. thus saving rubbishing the planet

   

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  • It is easy to forget that the Covid vaccinations currently in use need to be stored in carefully controlled conditions until a relatively short time before use.

    I agree, there are much more efficient ways of delivering injections of many types, particularly those supplied in self-inject packs.  One wonders if there is a measure if protective practice involved.  But it can be done.  When discharged from hospital after an operation last year, as a standard procedure for my operation, I was supplied with a 20 day pack of self-inject anti-coagulant drugs.  Simple instructions, diagrams and a sharps disposal bucket.   On the other hand I have a 6-monthly injection that is supplied on prescription in a self- inject pack that I collect from the pharmacist, keep in the fridge, but I am not allowed to use myself.  I have to make an appointment for a nurse to give it to me.

    Even the hygiene associated with injections and taking blood is changing.  Time was the area involved would be sterilised with a swab before penetration, but not now in our NHS Trust.  I had blood taken last week, no preparation, just a catheter inserted directly into a vein.

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  • It is easy to forget that the Covid vaccinations currently in use need to be stored in carefully controlled conditions until a relatively short time before use.

    I agree, there are much more efficient ways of delivering injections of many types, particularly those supplied in self-inject packs.  One wonders if there is a measure if protective practice involved.  But it can be done.  When discharged from hospital after an operation last year, as a standard procedure for my operation, I was supplied with a 20 day pack of self-inject anti-coagulant drugs.  Simple instructions, diagrams and a sharps disposal bucket.   On the other hand I have a 6-monthly injection that is supplied on prescription in a self- inject pack that I collect from the pharmacist, keep in the fridge, but I am not allowed to use myself.  I have to make an appointment for a nurse to give it to me.

    Even the hygiene associated with injections and taking blood is changing.  Time was the area involved would be sterilised with a swab before penetration, but not now in our NHS Trust.  I had blood taken last week, no preparation, just a catheter inserted directly into a vein.

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