Flu Jab

I see because of the governments decision not to give flu jabs to children under the age of 5 although they are an at risk group some private clinics have been cashing in by charging worried parents up to £80 per jab.

Phil

Bet they make a great profit on that Phil

Well considering adults can get it as low as £7 somebody is cashing in.

Phil

They can stuff it, never had it, never will.

Why don't the government charge for it?
They could charge something sensible and please everyone. Ah, just answered my own question didn't I?

I thought they had bought a huge stockpile of the flu vacine when swine flu first appeared or is that a different vacine

Not so long back you could walk into Boots on certain days and get a Flu Jab for £14 I think it was. The reason some of these clinics say say are charging up to £80 for children is they say that under 5's have to be injected by a doctor . Now allowing 5 minutes per jab which is ample time, a doctor could earn £8000 a day before expenses, not bad going.

Phil

Posted by berniew

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I thought they had bought a huge stockpile of the flu vacine when swine flu first appeared or is that a different vacine

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As I understand it, there is a different vaccine for every strain of flu, the medics predict which is going to be the most serious threat for the current winter and vaccinate against just that one strain.

Posted by phil

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Not so long back you could walk into Boots on certain days and get a Flu Jab for £14 I think it was. The reason some of these clinics say say are charging up to £80 for children is they say that under 5's have to be injected by a doctor . Now allowing 5 minutes per jab which is ample time, a doctor could earn £8000 a day before expenses, not bad going.

Phil

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I think queuing up paying kids and their parents at a rate of twelve per minute would prove somewhat difficult at a clinic.

Sorry Volty I worked it out on my head and I may have made a small error. At one jab every five minutes in a 9 hour day a doctor would inoculate 108 children. Which would gross £8.640, At your rate of 12 per minute he would inoculate 648 in an 9 hour day grossing £51,640. Sorry if I'm out again but I think one of my grandchildren has pinched my calculator.

Phil

No worse that my calculations, I went on about twelve per minute when of course it would be twelve per hour.