Covid vaccine

Have you been to your local medical centre armed with all the paper work & asked for a temp SIP?? If, like us you are under retirement age, not in "the system" & running with Private medical insurance that's what we had to do. We took TIE, Passport, Private medical insurance card & up to date padron & we were issued with the temp SIP in minutes, that was in the Salud in Guardamar.

garysl wrote:

Have you been to your local medical centre armed with all the paper work & asked for a temp SIP?? If, like us you are under retirement age, not in "the system" & running with Private medical insurance that's what we had to do. We took TIE, Passport, Private medical insurance card & up to date padron & we were issued with the temp SIP in minutes, that was in the Salud in Guardamar.

Yes. 4 of us. Me, my wife, and two friends. We showed all the documents you mention. Only one got a SIP card and they said that was because he was already in the system, after previously using a UK EHIC card, at Torrevieja hospital..

garysl wrote:

Have you been to your local medical centre armed with all the paper work & asked for a temp SIP?? If, like us you are under retirement age, not in "the system" & running with Private medical insurance that's what we had to do. We took TIE, Passport, Private medical insurance card & up to date padron & we were issued with the temp SIP in minutes, that was in the Salud in Guardamar.

Yes. 4 of us. Me, my wife, and two friends. We showed all the documents you mention. Only one got a SIP card and they said that was because he was already in the system, after previously using a UK EHIC card, at Torrevieja hospital..

iain wrote:We have a second home in Spain but are UK residents. While in Spain we always renewed our padron and got temporary SIP cards. The last ones expired in Dec-2020.

Yesterday I received a text message on my Spanish phone informing me that I have an appointment for my first AZ jab in Torrevieja on 14th April and another appointment for my second jab on June 29th! This must obviously be in error. I've already had both Pfizer jabs here in the UK anyway. I've sent a message via the Generalitat Valenciana web site asking for my appointments to be cancelled. Hoepfully someone else will be allocated those slots instead.

By the way, I'm only in my early 60's but it's good to know the roll-out seems to be gaining pace in Spain!

iain wrote:We have a second home in Spain but are UK residents. While in Spain we always renewed our padron and got temporary SIP cards. The last ones expired in Dec-2020.

Yesterday I received a text message on my Spanish phone informing me that I have an appointment for my first AZ jab in Torrevieja on 14th April and another appointment for my second jab on June 29th! This must obviously be in error. I've already had both Pfizer jabs here in the UK anyway. I've sent a message via the Generalitat Valenciana web site asking for my appointments to be cancelled. Hoepfully someone else will be allocated those slots instead.

By the way, I'm only in my early 60's but it's good to know the roll-out seems to be gaining pace in Spain!

nick_ask wrote:Hi I have received an SMS to attend for AZ vaccine on Weds in Torrivieja. I had another SMS in January giving me a temporay SIP number. I am below retirement age, have Residencia and Private Health Insurance. I am still puzzled as to whether I need a card having read all through this thread, with some posters having visited their Health Centre and come away SIP cardless.

Anyone out there attended for jab in similar circumstances?