stevensfo wrote:I did phone my local surgery but the nice ladies on the desk don't have a clue.
PhaseThree wrote:My mother-in-law had her first two jabs while visiting us in here in Northern Ireland. She has been trying to get these recognised and added to her English NHS vaccination record ever since. So far there has been a never ending sequence of can't be done/don't know how/someone else's problem.
I take it you folks/MiL have tried
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ns-abroad/ ?
In any case, I'm a little (ok, only a little) surprised at the responses from your local practices, although I guess it may depend on precisely the question asked.
NHS records are actually records held by your GP's practice, and they should be able to amend them as they wish. E.g. when I changed GP some years ago I found that my vaccinations record, for reasons unknown, didn't get to my new GP, so I gave them my personal record of jabs I'd had (studiously kept, along with date & type, as I used to travel a lot), and they just entered them into my NHS record.
They did so on trust, I guess on the basis that nobody has much of a reason to lie about if/when they had their last DPT jab and the like, but I could understand that they might want to ask for proof for a covid jab, but the point is that it's your GP's practice that holds medical records and they should be able to add vaccinations, abroad or anywhere, to them.
Now, there may be a different question for covid jabs, being how to get a covid jab abroad reflected in your "NHS COVID Pass", which is, of course, the practical matter, and that may be a different system and I guess is what the link above is about ...