Rules and Guidelines
Want to participate in the discussions? Please read our Community Rules and Guidelines. Need some help? Visit Support and Answers.

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 4 replies
  • Subscribers 20 subscribers
  • Views 745 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
You may also be interested in
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

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

   

Parents

  • A reference to the new device would be useful.

    Forget the ritual of wiping an alcohol swab on the skin - it was shown to achieve nothing decades ago. There is a theoretical risk of the alcohol denaturing the vaccination. What you do need to ensure is that the tip of the needle is in the correct place. Hitting a blood vessel is not good. Most want to be in muscle, but IIRC for example, BCG (tuberculosis) is injected into the skin itself.

    One way or another, the vast majority of vaccination is undertaken by the NHS. That is one of the few advantages of having a state-run health service, but that is not to say that the private sector is not involved. Last year I had my 'flu' vaccination at a local pharmacy.

Reply

  • A reference to the new device would be useful.

    Forget the ritual of wiping an alcohol swab on the skin - it was shown to achieve nothing decades ago. There is a theoretical risk of the alcohol denaturing the vaccination. What you do need to ensure is that the tip of the needle is in the correct place. Hitting a blood vessel is not good. Most want to be in muscle, but IIRC for example, BCG (tuberculosis) is injected into the skin itself.

    One way or another, the vast majority of vaccination is undertaken by the NHS. That is one of the few advantages of having a state-run health service, but that is not to say that the private sector is not involved. Last year I had my 'flu' vaccination at a local pharmacy.

Children
No Data

Community Rules & Guidelines