NHS app

[Retire1day]

I downloaded the app, it is not track and trace but it has your vaccination record on it and apparently the UK will use that. You need your NHS number ideally, then a smart phone to take a picture of ID, then a picture of yourself. Still waiting for approval as I expect someone has to verify you. I think you can order repeat prescriptions, book appointments etc so might be quite good.
Project tracking underway, haha, I have had my chip inserted via vaccine, lol.

[Retire1day]

Just been approved and I can see my vaccine on the app.

[paulja]

Thanks for that information Retire.

Just completed it all and just waiting now.

[paulja]

Just been approved and I can see my vaccine on the app.

I have no been approved but am unable to see my vaccine in the app.

Did you have to contact surgery for more access to records.

[Retire1day]

Go to your health at the bottom, then medicines, then short term medicines, not easy:

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[Retire1day]

I was expecting some big flashing sign, covid vaccine approval but I think the government just want it to be listed under all other vaccines, my flu one was in there as well. After they said you did not need a vaccine passport I expect this will be shown as part of the vaccination record, politics.it took me another five minutes to find it this morning after going around in circles.

[paulja]

I looked everywhere and could not see it listed.

Rechecked on the section you posted and for some reason it is not showing.

Thanks anyway.

[Sheff_Blade]

An interesting piece just appeared on the BBC website about this app.

It might seem that the NHS app, used by a million or so people since 2019 to book GP appointments or order prescriptions, has fortuitously given the government an instant solution to creating a vaccine passport.

Not so fast - there are a number of hurdles to be cleared.

While the app can record your vaccinations, that isn't automatic - I've searched in vain to find the record of my Covid jab, only to get a message saying I need to ask my GP for access to my detailed health record.

If the NHS app does become a vaccine passport, millions of people will be bombarding GPs with similar requests.

But the government has made it clear it wants a broader process of Covid certification - including recent test results - otherwise young people who hadn't been vaccinated wouldn't be able to travel. Integrating tests into the app promises to be complex.

Finally, there's the process of transforming the NHS app into something that will be easy to use and trusted by border police around the world.

"If people think they'll just be able to flash the existing app with their vaccine record at passport control, that isn't going to happen," one insider told me.

Getting everything ready by 17 May looks like a major bureaucratic challenge, even if the technology can be updated quickly and efficiently.

[wendy]

I have set up mine, there are 73 items on the medicines going back 2011 but I did find both my vaccines on there too, would be better if it wasn't amongst medicines and just a stand alone item, but at least I have proof of my vaccines.

[Retire1day]

Things are changing aren't they with technology. One of my sons thinks he might need an operation, I phoned BUPA yesterday, they gave my son the details of how to arrange to talk to a doctor over the phone, had his appointment on his phone at 22.20 last night, then referred to a surgeon and no doubt will see him shortly after for scan then operation if as he suspects. If you don't have private health care in the UK you will now wait years for general surgery. BUPA said anytime I need to speak with a doctor just use the app and a doctor will speak to me within two hours normally.