Online voices

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Following the news that 20 people missed covid vaccination appointments at one GP group in just three days here are more of your online comments.

Stephen F Lounton:

Total waste when others could have taken their place . Someone I know has to travel 72 miles to Knaresborough to get the vaccine.

Linda Trueman: They should be made to pay for the injection and the wages of the nurses if they didn’t want them or couldn’t attend could they not have let the practice know?

Lady-Kathy P Douglass:

If they agree to an appointment and don’t turn up there should be a fine unless there is a good reason. It is depriving others of the vaccine.

Rosalind Grant: If online centre gives anyone an appointment too far away to get to I can't understand why they didn’t contact their own doctor for an appointment at a venue nearer to them rather than just not turn up. It’s obviously their turn for the vaccine. I was told the same and phoned my doctor and was given an appointment at my local venue for the next week.

Christine French:

Definitely should be fined, unless there’s a valid reason. But even then it doesn’t take much to pick up the phone.

Ken Pullan: Not as simple as that. My wife was able to get an appointment but it was in Darlington so did not proceed with the online NHS booking. At no point did she ‘book’ it. When she tried again today it stated she had missed her booked appointment. So the booking system had glitches and I suspect these might account for ‘no shows’. Also she still cannot book online as the site now wants you to book first and second vaccines and fine for the first one but then when no second one is available it doesn’t allow you to confirm the first. Whoever programmed the web pages needs to get back to basics.

Kim Eavis:

If they want them another time

I would make them pay for it, disgraceful, disrespectful of all who have given their time to give the covid vaccination.

Joanne Davison: Hope it was given to someone else and vaccine wasn’t wasted.

Kevin Smith: Put them to the back of the queue.