# Covid Vaccine **URL:** \ **Category:** New to Carers Connect\ **Created:** [13 February 2021 07:19 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/covid-vaccine/68041 "2021-02-13T07:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Janet\_210212345](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@Janet\_210212345](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/Janet_210212345)\ **Post date:** [13 February 2021 07:19 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/covid-vaccine/68041/1 "2021-02-13T07:19:36Z")
Hi I am new to the forum. I look after my clinically vulnerable parents who live with me. I am registered as their carer but I don’t or haven’t claimed carers allowance. I understand I am in group 6 but I am hearing of much younger healthy people who are or have had their vaccine because they care for someone? Is there a case of some GPs are giving thrir consent are they able to override the recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![sunnydisposition](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@sunnydisposition](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/sunnydisposition)\ **Post date:** [13 February 2021 09:49 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/covid-vaccine/68041/2 "2021-02-13T09:49:53Z")
[https://www.carersuk.org/forum/44/carers-removed-from-vaccine-list-42910](https://www.carersuk.org/forum/44/carers-removed-from-vaccine-list-42910) ---
**Author:** ![Deborah\_2102123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@Deborah\_2102123](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/Deborah_2102123)\ **Post date:** [15 February 2021 17:39 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/covid-vaccine/68041/3 "2021-02-15T17:39:52Z")
Hi, I too am new to CarersUK. I’m 64 and caring for my partner who has Parkinson’s disease. He’s 74 and has already had his first vaccine. When I read that unpaid carers were eligible for the vaccine I rang my surgery to make sure it was known that I was an unpaid carer, but they seemed unaware that it even counted. Does anyone know what criteria I have to meet to prove that I am an unpaid carer? ---
**Author:** ![bowlingbun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@bowlingbun](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/bowlingbun)\ **Post date:** [16 February 2021 08:15 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/covid-vaccine/68041/4 "2021-02-16T08:15:11Z")
Quote NHS Protocol C1124. I’ve just put the details on my surgery Facebook site, after they gave the wrong information to a family carer. Let’s all do this today.